The 17 Highest-Paid CEOs In Tech

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Marc R. Benioff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Salesforce.com, speaks during a session at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 22, 2014.

While some tech CEOs, including Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg and Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have opted to receive a $1 annual salary, others are still bringing in the big bucks.

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The New York Times recently put together a list of the 200 highest-paid CEOs in America. Many of them run tech companies.

Only chief executives leading companies with a market capitalization of at least $1 billion were considered.

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While longtime CEOs like Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff are no strangers to lists like this one, there were some surprises.