Overview: What Tim Cook & Co. earned in 2025

To coincide with its upcoming Annual General Meeting on February 24th, Apple has published various details on the current compensation of key executives in a filing, including a Proxy Statement. These are the so-called “Named Executive Officers” for the year 2025, i.e., selected members of the executive level. This year, they are CEO Tim Cook, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Kevan Parekh, General Counsel Kate Adams, Chief Operating Officer Sabih Khan, former CFO Luca Maestri, and Head of Retail and People Deirdre O'Brien.

What Tim Cook received

According to the document, Cook himself received a total of 74.29 million US dollars in 2025. This consisted of a base salary of 3 million and a cash bonus of 12 million, which is tied to Apple's financial performance. The largest portion, however, was stock awards totaling 57.53 million dollars.

Finally, there was “all other compensation” amounting to 1.7 million dollars. This includes, among other things, a contribution to Cook's retirement plan (401(k) plan) of 21,000 dollars, life insurance for almost 2900 dollars, vacation pay of around 57,000 dollars, security expenses of exactly 887,870 dollars, and private flights for 789,991 dollars. Cook is allowed to use the latter for “all business and personal” travel, which is necessary for “security and efficiency reasons.”

Selected Managers and Board of Directors

Compared to Cook, other managers received less: Adams, Khan, and O'Brien each received a total of just under 27 million dollars, Parekh, who succeeded long-time CFO Maestri, a good 22 million, and Maestri himself, who is now responsible for Apple's real estate portfolio among other things, 15.4 million. Here too, stock awards are by far the most important component of compensation. For “all other compensation,” such as private jets and security, all managers except Cook were frugal, receiving an average of just under 22,000 dollars. Only Deirdre O'Brien was not quite twice as expensive for Apple, costing around 37,800 dollars, likely due to her travel activities related to Apple Stores.

Apple's supervisory board, the Board of Directors, which includes outside business leaders Wanda Austin, Alex Gorsky, Andrea Jung, Art Levinson, Monica Lozana, Ron Sugar, and Sue Wagner in addition to Cook, received compensation ranging from 100,000 to 145,000 dollars. Levinson, as Chairman, received 275,000 dollars. In addition to these cash payments, there were stock awards of approximately 310,000 dollars each, with Levinson receiving approximately 275,000 dollars. Travel and other expenses ranged from 338 (Wagner) to 16,248 (Sugar) dollars.

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