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 News & Gossip
The 10 Highest Paid CEOs

#9
Geoffrey C. Bible
COB and CEO, Philip Morris Companies Inc.

Direct deposit: $4,750,000
Perks: $16,529,142 option value + $8,200,000 long term incentive plan payouts
Total Compensation: $29,479,142


Hot project: The June 12 IPO of subsidiary Kraft Foods -- the second largest domestic IPO ever -- raised $8.7 billion.
Career path: Bible was an accountant for Philip Morris for almost 30 years before he became CEO in 1994.
Unflattering headline: "Bible Sells Bad Stuff -- And Not Well," from a Forbes account of the 63-year-old Australian-born businessman's low ranking on its CEO value list.

Rankings and data provided by Executive Compensation Advisory Services (ECAS) for fiscal year 2000.
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