New Delhi: Here we mention three names and their brief introduction. Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has a net worth of approximately $336 billion. Jeff Bezos the founder of Amazon has a net worth of around $212 billion. Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Meta Platforms (Facebook Instagram WhatsApp) has a net worth of roughly $211 billion. Now let’s talk about Satya Narayana Nadella the Indian-born American business executive who is the CEO of Microsoft. Sundar Pichai the Indian American CEO of Alphabet Inc. Tim Cook the American business executive and the current CEO of Apple Inc. These three CEOs have been smashing the headlines in terms of news presence and fat paychecks. However the crown for America’s highest-paid CEO in 2024 goes to Jim Anderson who is the CEO of Pennsylvania-based Coherent Corp which produces equipment for networks and lasers. A big part of Jim Anderson’s salary was made up of more than $100 million in stock awards thus making him the world’s highest-paid CEO in 2024. According to the Equilar 100 list which tracks CEO compensation among US public companies with over $1 billion in revenue Anderson earned a total salary of an astonishing $101.5 million in 2024 thus making him the only executive on the list to break into the elusive nine-digit club. As mentioned the amount comprised the salary and 99.4% of it as compensation from stock awards. He joined Coherent as CEO in June 2024. Second on the list of highest-paid CEOs is Brian Niccol of Starbucks. Brian Niccol earned $95.8 million. Other well-known CEOs whose compensation was valued lower than Anderson’s were Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ($79.1 million) Apple CEO Tim Cook ($74.6 million) and Disney CEO Bob Iger ($40.6 million). The top five highest paid CEOs: James Anderson of Coherent with $101.50M. Brian R. Niccol of Starbucks with $95.80M. H. Lawrence Culp Jr. of General Electric with $87.39M. Satya Nadella of Microsoft with $79.11M. Tim Cook of Apple with $74.61M