Tim Cook
Apple’s CEO since 2011, who scaled the company past a $3 trillion market value on the iPhone, services, and one of the largest buyback programs in history.
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Pay vs performance
what happened while he earned itNo score, no opinion. Compensation is filed; stock and S&P are market returns over the window shown; revenue and EPS are latest reported vs the prior year. You decide.
Why this pay?
- Almost all of Cook's pay is a single large annual restricted-stock grant tied to Apple's share performance, not cash.
- His FY2024 total rose on a higher grant value but stayed well below his 2022 peak, after he asked the board to cut his target pay.
Worth knowing
Apple’s Tim Cook grew up in small-town Robertsdale, Alabama, the son of a shipyard worker and a pharmacy employee, and was salutatorian of his high school before studying industrial engineering at Auburn.
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Compensation breakdown
DEF 14AUp from FY2023 on a higher equity grant, still below the FY2022 peak. Source: Apple 2025 Proxy (FY2024) →
Compensation history
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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Apple's Summary Compensation Table for FY2024(grant-date values, which can differ from what an executive realizes when awards vest). We publish what the filings say, and we don't grade people. Photo: Tessa Bury / CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons.