Analytics Insight has listed top technology company CEOs with the highest salary package

The world is always curious about what big company CEOs do. Remember how everybody wanted to switch to Signal just because Elon Musk tweeted saying that he believes in the platform? Not to forget how people big-mouthed Mark Zuckerberg when a cyberattack that breached his privacy showed him using Signal, Whatsapp's direct competitor platform. These controversies are just the tip of the iceberg. It shows how people are interested in CEOs, especially, Technology company CEOs' routine. Their salaries also play a big role in people's interests. Technology company CEOs get some of the highest-paid salaries on earth. Every year, the world keeps a close eye on their bank balance to see who is leading in the never-ending race. However, they also prove to be worth the pay. Companies around the world struggled to cope with the pandemic due to lockdowns and social distancing guidelines. But technology company CEOs did not stop there. They strived hard to make it big even in the sloppiest year. Henceforth, Analytics Insight has listed the highest-paid salaries and the CEOs who are getting them.

Elon Musk

Company: Tesla Inc

Salary: US$595.3 million

Elon Musk is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tesla. He also holds the gratitude of founding a space tech company named 'SpaceX' and is acting as the CEO, CTO, and chief designer of the company. Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.com in 1999, which later became PayPal. Musk is engaged in unraveling electric and self-driving cars with worldly features under Tesla and is working on commercial rockets under SpaceX programs. His total net worth is over US$179.7 billion. Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy and Elon Musk has been giving his all for this.

Twitter: @elonmusk

Tim Cook

Company: Apple Inc

Salary: US$ US$133.7 million

Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple Inc since 2011. He had a long journey in the company throughout his career working as a Chief Operating Officer for all of the worldwide sales and operations, including end-to-end management of Apple's supply chain, sales activities, and service and support in all markets and countries. Cook graduated from Auburn University in Alabama with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and received a master's in business administration from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Cook joined the company when it was seeing a decline in sales. He also stood by Apple when it developed iMac, iPod, iPhone, or iPad.

Twitter: @tim_cook

Sumit Singh

Company: Chewy Inc

Salary: US$108.2 million

Sumit Singh is the CEO of Chewy Inc, the company that offers pet food, treats, and supplies, and pet healthcare products for dogs, cats fish, etc. through its retail website and mobile application. In his role, Singh leads more than 10,000 'chewtopians' (as they like to call themselves) towards their mission of becoming the most trusted and convenient online destination for pet parents everywhere. He joined the company in 2017 as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and became the CEO in 2018. Sing has prior work experience in big tech companies like Amazon, Dell technologies, etc. He holds a bachelor of technology degree from the Punjab Technical University, India, and Master of Science degree in operations and logistics from the University of Texas at Austin, and a master of business administration degree from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

Twitter: @sumitsingh

Sundar Pichai

Company: Alphabet

Salary: US$280.6 million

Sundar Pichai is the CEO of tech giant Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google. Originally from Tamil Nadu, India, Pichai studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he received a degree in Bachelor of Technology. He received an MS degree from Stanford and obtained an MBA from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2004, Pichai joined Google as the head of product management and development and initially worked on the Google Toolbar to enable easy access to Google search within the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox Web Browsers. According to reports, Pichai was aggressively pursued employment by microblogging service Twitter, and in 2014, he was touted as a possible CEO for Microsoft, but in both instances, he was granted large financial packages to remain with Google.

Twitter: @sundarpichai

Satya Nadella

Company: Microsoft

Salary: US$42 million

Satya Narayana Nadella is the CEO of the computer software company Microsoft since 2014. He is an Indian-born business executive who was brought up in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad and studied electrical engineering at Mangalore University. After moving to the United States, he completed a master's degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and started his career at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He stood by Microsoft in its rough and tough times and has successfully reached a place where the company has more cloud computing revenue than Google, more subscribers than Netflix, and near-trillion-dollar market capital.

Twitter: @satyanadella