Tim Cook walked away from Apple's top job into a $47 million executive chair package — rewarding the man who built the supply chain that shipped American manufacturing to China while working families pay premium prices for devices assembled by foreign labor.
Cook's new deal, disclosed this week, includes a $2 million base salary and $45 million in shares, half tied to performance targets and half vesting over four years. His successor as CEO, John Ternus, will receive a $3 million salary plus a $55 million share award. Cook's total CEO compensation for 2025 topped $74 million. Forbes pegs his personal wealth at $3 billion.
The numbers are staggering, but the real story is how Cook earned them. He took over as CEO in 2011 after impressing as an
