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There are some chief executive officers who not only earn multi-million dollar pay every year, but also walk out with massive retirement packages.
24/7 Wall St has reviewed the largest golden parachute packages going back to the year 2000. To keep this uniform, it only used examples in which these CEOs with golden parachutes were not founders of their companies.
Let's take a look at some huge retirement packages of CEOs.
Source: 24/7 Wall St
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Jack Welch
Company: General Electric
Package: $417 million
Tenure: 1981-2001
Global rank: 1
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Lee Raymond
Company: Exxon Mobil Corporation
Package: $320 million
Tenure: 1993-2005
Global rank: 2
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William McGuire
Company: UnitedHeath Group
Package: $286 million
Tenure: 1991-2006
Global rank: 3
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Ed Whitacre
Company: AT&T Inc
Package: $230 million
Tenure: 1990-2007
Global rank: 4
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Robert Nardelli
Company: Home Depot Inc
Package: $223 million
Tenure: 2000-2007
Global rank: 5
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John Kanas
Company: North Fork Bank, now with BankUnited Inc
Package: $214 million
Tenure: 1977-2006
Global rank: 6
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Fred Hassan
Company: Merck & Co, actually Schering-Plough
Package: $189 million
Tenure: 2003-2009
Global rank: 7
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Louis Gerstner
Company: International Business Machines
Package: $189 million
Tenure: 1993-2002
Global rank: 8
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Hank McKinnell
Company: Pfizer
Package: $188 million
Tenure: 2001-2006
Global rank: 9
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Thomas Ryan
Company: CVS Caremark Corporation
Package: $185 million
Tenure: 1998-2011
Global rank: 10
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James Kilts
Company: Gillette
Package: $164 million
Tenure: 2001-2005
Global rank: 11
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Robert Ulrich
Company: Target Corporation
Package: $164 million
Tenure: 1994-2008
Global rank: 12
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Stan O'Neal
Company: Merrill Lynch
Package: $161 million
Tenure: 2002-2007
Global rank: 13
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Jerry Grundhofer
Company: US Bancorp
Package: $159 million
Tenure: 2001-2006
Global rank: 14
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Joel Gemunder
Company: Omnicare
Package: $146 million
Tenure: 2001-2010
Global rank: 15