America’s most highly paid bosses are not necessarily those who run the country’s biggest companies.
Chief executives at Hertz, Peloton and Pinterest all earned more than $100 million last year, more than almost every boss in the S&P 500 index of most of the country’s biggest publicly traded businesses.
All three, for instance, earned more than Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, which on Monday became the first company in the world to reach a market value of $3 trillion. Cook earned $99 million.
In contrast, Hertz is worth $5.8 billion, Peloton $2.9 billion and Pinterest $18.6 billion.
In all, nine chief executives made more than $100 million last year out of nearly 4,000 publicly traded US companies analysed, down from 20 a
