Tech's 12 Top-Paid CEOs

1. Lawrence Ellison

    Oracle

One-year compensation: 9,300,000,000 Indian Rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 36.3%*

Rank among all CEOs: 1

2. Nabeel Gareeb

MEMC Electronic Materials

One-year compensation: 3,800,000,000 Indian rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 126.1%

Rank among all CEOs: 6

3. John Chambers

Cisco Systems

One-year compensation: 2,600,000,000 Indian rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 61.7%

Rank among all CEOs: 19

4. Mark Hurd

Hewlett-Packard

One-year compensation: 1,300,000,000 Indian Rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 34.4%

Rank among all CEOs: 56

5. Jen-Hsun Huang

NVIDIA

One-year compensation: 1,200,000,000 Indian Rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 20.3%

Rank among all CEOs: 61

6. Samuel Palmisano

IBM

One-year compensation: 1,160,000,000 Indian Rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 12.8%

Rank among all CEOs: 63

7. Wendell Weeks

Corning

One-year compensation: 1,080,000,000 Indian Rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 28.8%

Rank among all CEOs: 72

8. Joseph Tucci

EMC

One-year compensation: 962,200,000 Indian Rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 40.4%

Rank among all CEOs: 87

9. William Sullivan

Agilent Technologies

One-year compensation: 837,100,000 Indian Rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 9.9%

Rank among all CEOs: 102

10. Paul Otellini

Intel

One-year compensation: 784,180,000 Indian Rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 34.2%

Rank among all CEOs: 109

11. Steven Jobs

Apple

One-year compensation: 702,400,000 Indian rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 99.3%

Rank among all CEOs: 120

12. Jonathan Schwartz

Sun Microsystems

One-year compensation: 649,500,000 Indian Rupees

Company's fiscal year total return: 26.7%

Rank among all CEOs: 130