15 highest paid CEOs

Marissa Mayer sits pretty with her high Yahoo salary.

Which tech executives bring home the bacon? The New York Times put together a list of the 200 highest paid executives in the world. Twenty-eight of them run tech companies.
Marissa Mayer and Larry Ellison are some of the highest paid individuals. Activision Blizzard's Robert Kotick makes the highest base salary which exceeds $2 million, although he's not the highest paid overall. Surprisingly, Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg didn't make the cut.

Sprint Nextel's Daniel Hesse made $11.1 million in 2012, down from $11.9 million the year prior.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $1,200,000
• Bonus: $5,002,457
• Perks: $167,334
• Stock: $3,560,070
• Options: $1,214,695

Tibco Software's Vivek Ranadive made $11.3 million in 2012, up from $11.3 million the year prior.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $542,656
• Bonus: $306,000
• Perks: $101,945
• Stock: $10,342,500
• Options: $0

Corning's Wendell Weeks made $11.5 million in 2012, up from $7.4 million the year prior.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $1,197,308
• Bonus: $6,265,910
• Perks: $572,297
• Stock: $1,749,994
• Options: $1,668,623

Cisco Systems' John Chambers made $11.7 million in 2012, down from $12.9 million the year prior.

Cisco CEO John Chambers

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $375,000
• Bonus: $3,953,376
• Perks: $11,025
• Stock: $7,348,265
• Options: $0

First Solar's James Hughes made $11.8 million in 2012.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $556,154
• Bonus: $1,164,770
• Perks: $11,423
• Stock: $10,035,012
• Options: $0

Adobe Systems' Shantanu Narayen made $12.0 million in 2012, up from $10.8 million the year prior.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $893,182
• Bonus: $1,339,772
• Perks: $30,747
• Stock: $9,749,250
• Options: $0

AOL's Tim Armstrong made $12.1 million in 2012, up from $3.2 million the year prior.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $1,000,000
• Bonus: $3,250,000
• Perks: $12,684
• Stock: $2,757,575
• Options: $5,051,163

Intuit's Brad Smith made $12.6 million in 2012, up from $11.6 million the year prior.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $975,000
• Bonus: $1,647,750
• Perks: $12,559
• Stock: $8,230,578
• Options: $1,608,698

Fidelity National Information Service's Frank Martire made $12.7 million in 2012, up from $11.1 million the year prior.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $1,000,000
• Bonus: $3,949,636
• Perks: $213,495
• Stock: $5,625,005
• Options: $1,873,958

Analog Devices' Jerald Fishman made $12.7 million in 2012, up from $8.9 million the year prior.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $930,935
• Bonus: $1,494,652
• Perks: $3,107,013
• Stock: $7,194,000
• Options: $0

Texas Instruments' Richard Templeton made $13.1 million in 2012, down from $13.9 million the year prior.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $1,035,841
• Bonus: $2,748,581
• Perks: $272,710
• Stock: $5,123,688
• Options: $3,950,347

Verizon Communications' Lowell McAdam made $13.8 million in 2012.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $1,400,000
• Bonus: $3,150,000
• Perks: $535,577
• Stock: $8,750,055
• Options: $0

Harris Corp's William Brown made $14.3 million in 2012.

Harris Corp CEO William Brown

Harris Corp

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $535,385
• Bonus: $5,300,000
• Perks: $434,997
• Stock: $4,621,824
• Options: $3,374,074

Broadcom's Scott McGregor made $15.1 million in 2012, down from $16.1 million the year prior.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $932,615
• Bonus: $2,312,400
• Perks: $5,000
• Stock: $11,819,030
• Options: $0

IBM's Virginia Rometty made $15.4 million in 2012.

Compensation breakdown:

• Salary: $1,500,000
• Bonus: $3,915,000
• Perks: $687,725
• Stock: $9,259,000
• Options: $0

Source: Mashable