FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women in Business
FORTUNES's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Highest paid
1 Meg Whitman eBay $29.9 million
2 Andrea Jung Avon $22.1 million
3*** Suzanne Johnson Goldman Sachs $17.5 million
3*** Zoe Cruz Morgan Stanley $17.5 million
4 Ann Daly Dreamworks $16.8 million*
5 Marie Toulantis Barnes & Noble $15.8 million
6 Patricia Russo Lucent $15.5 million
7 Anne Mulcahy Xerox $14.1 million
8 Myrtle Potter Genentech $14.0 million
9 Susan Desmond-Hellmann Genentech $13.4 million
Footnotes:
*Not including value of stock options that were granted prior to the IPO.
**Total compensation includes annualized base salary, bonuses, the present value of option grants (calculated by Equilar using the Black-Scholes formula as of the grant date), restricted stock awards, long-term incentive-plan payouts, and other compensation as disclosed in company proxies. Equilar Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., prepared the chart by looking at companies with more than $1 billion in revenues that filed proxies as of Sept. 1.
***Tied for third place.
Young and powerful
Newcomer Charlene Begley heads up GE's plastics division and is the youngest of this group at age 39. She bumped last year's youngest gun, Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck, now 40. But, on average, the Power 50 are in their late 40s.
1 Charlene Begley 39
2 Sallie Krawcheck 40
3 Susan Decker 42
Perennial powers
These women have been on the Power 50 each year since it began in 1998.
1 Oprah Winfrey Harpo
2 Andrea Jung Avon
3 Pat Russo Lucent

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