New Delhi, May 5 -- When it comes to salary 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 none of the popular CEOs took the highest pay package in the US.

As per 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 on 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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