New Delhi, May 5 -- When it comes to salaries of CEOs, one would imagine Apple's Tim Cook or Microsoft's Satya Nadella take home the highest amount of pay. This notion has, however, been broken with a recent study, which saw that none of the popular CEOs took the highest pay package in the US.

According to a report by Equilar, which had an early look at the highest-paid CEOs of 2024 in the United States, Coherent CEO Jim Anderson is at the top of the list.

The US' highest-paid CEO, Jim Anderson, has not been much heard about. However, he is the only CEO in the top 10 list whose salary crosses nine figures at almost $101.50 million.

In 2024, Anderson earned a total salary of $101,497,009, according to the Equilar report.

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