Average 15 percent have decreased wages of CEOs of large U.S. groups last year, a study cited by the New York Times. According to data the average amount taken against bosses work during the year amounted to 9.53 million. The study included 200 businessmen who are CEOs of the company at least two years. Examined 199 companies (Motorola has two executive directors) and those with the highest revenue in the U.S. last year. With the highest salary in 2009 turned Lawrence Ellison, chief executive of Oracle and the sixth-richest man in the world according to the magazine Forbes. Money he received as salary and other bonuses during the year, a total of 84.5 million dollars. This is more than the sum of the salaries of two chiefs who rank second and third place in the rankings – Ray Elliott (Boston Scientific Corp) with 33.37 million and Ray Airan (Occidental Petroleum Corp) with 31.4 million dollars.
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