Apple executives Bob Mansfield, Bruce Sewell, Jeffrey Williams, Peter Oppenheimer among top paid at S&P 500 companies
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| Photo credit: AP | Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, speaks on stage during an introduction of the new iPhone 5 in San Francisco, Sept. 12, 2012. |
The four executives are Bob Mansfield, Bruce Sewell, Jeffrey Williams and Peter Oppenheimer, according to fiscal 2012 compensation figures for top earners filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. About 80 percent of S&P 500 companies had submitted their numbers as of April 12.
Last year was the second in a row that payouts at Cupertino, California-based Apple ranked among the most generous. Apple directors, who put CEO Tim Cook at the top of the heap last year, are using compensation to keep the team that transformed the iPhone maker into the most valuable technology company under co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011. The urgency has increased in recent months as Samsung Electronics Co. and Google Inc. challenge Apple.
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去年是蘋果連續第二年榮登支付主管最高薪酬的公司寶座，蘋果執行長庫克前年則是薪酬最高的主管。為了留住把蘋果轉變成全球獲利最高科技公司的領導團隊，蘋果不惜支付業界最高的主管薪酬，尤其是近來三星電子和Google的威脅日深，使這套策略更有其必要。
52歲的曼斯菲德1999年加入蘋果，現在擔任科技資深副總裁，領導半導體和無線產品開發，去年薪酬8,550萬美元，幾乎全部是股票。他在標普500主管去年薪酬排名第二。
54歲的塞維爾是蘋果法務長，獲得6,900萬美元薪酬，排名第三。在他帶領下，蘋果對三星發動全球專利訴訟大戰，去年贏得判罰三星10.5億美元的判決。
49歲的威廉斯是蘋果營運資深副總裁，去年薪酬6,870萬美元，排名第四。他接手庫克留下的位置，負責蘋果供應鏈和與富士康等製造夥伴的關係。
50歲的蘋果財務長歐本海默獲得6,860萬美元，排名第五。他統籌蘋果1,371億美元現金的運用策略。
舊金山Opus研究公司分析師史特林說，「這是蘋果留住前執行長賈伯斯時代關鍵主管的策略」，此外，這在鞏固對領導階層的信心也很有幫助。
四位蘋果主管的薪酬去年都超過執行長庫克。52歲的庫克去年只領得417萬美元，但前年他領到3.78億美元，幾乎全是分十年可取得的特別股。
標普500最高薪酬的主管是甲骨文執行長艾里森（Larry Ellison），去年抱回9,620萬美元。
【2013/04/16 經濟日報】
