Nooyi, Nadella, Bhavesh Patel among highest paid CEOs in world

As many as three Indian origin persons have been named among 100 highest-paid CEOs globally with PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi and LyondellBasell’s Bhavesh Patel making it to the top ten list compiled by Equilar.

Chemicals company LyondellBasell Industries’ top executive Bhavesh V Patel was ranked sixth on the list with a total compensation of USD 24.5 million, while Nooyi, the Chief Executive of PepsiCo was ranked eighth on the list with a total pay of USD 22.2 million.

Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft was ranked 26th on the list of 100 highest-paid CEOs with a total compensation of USD 18.3 million.

The overall list was topped by Mark V Hurd and Safra A Catz of Oracle Corp with both boasting a total compensation of USD 53.2 million.

Others on the top 10 include, Robert A Iger of Walt Disney (USD 43.5 million), David M Cote of Honeywell International (USD 33.1 million), General Electric’s Jeffrey R Immelt (USD 26.4 million), Randall L Stephenson of AT&T (USD 22.4 million), Rupert Murdoch of Twenty-First Century Fox (USD 22.2 million) and James P Gorman of Morgan Stanley (USD 22 million).