Tim Cook
Apple’s CEO since 2011, who scaled the company past a $3 trillion market value on the iPhone, services, and one of the largest buyback programs in history.
Pay vs performance
what happened while he earned itNo score, no opinion. Compensation is filed; stock and S&P are market returns over the window shown; revenue and EPS are latest reported vs the prior year. You decide.
Why this pay?
- Almost all of Cook's pay is a single large annual restricted-stock grant tied to Apple's share performance, not cash.
- His FY2024 total rose on a higher grant value but stayed well below his 2022 peak, after he asked the board to cut his target pay.
Worth knowing
Apple’s Tim Cook grew up in small-town Robertsdale, Alabama, the son of a shipyard worker and a pharmacy employee, and was salutatorian of his high school before studying industrial engineering at Auburn.
Source: Public biography · More facts →
Quick facts
Compensation breakdown
DEF 14AUp from FY2023 on a higher equity grant, still below the FY2022 peak. Source: Apple 2025 Proxy (FY2024) →
Compensation history
salary + cash vs stock, from the proxiesRelated intelligence
every filing on Apple, one hop awayCareer
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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Apple's Summary Compensation Table for FY2024(grant-date values, which can differ from what an executive realizes when awards vest). We publish what the filings say, and we don't grade people. Photo: Tessa Bury / CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons.