Highest-Paid Women in America Reap Rewards of Technology Boom
- IBM’s Ginni Rometty is tops with $96.8 million pay package
- Yahoo, HP, Oracle, General Dynamics CEOs round out top five
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's $33 Million Pay Is Up for Debate
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Ginni Rometty, Meg Whitman and Safra Catz have been trailblazers in the technology industry, and now they’re America’s highest-paid female executives.
Rometty, 59, the chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corp., was awarded a $96.8 million package for last year, making her the top-ranked woman on the Bloomberg Pay Index, a ranking of the 200 best-compensated executives at companies that submit details to U.S. regulators. That puts her at No. 6 on the list, after five men, and marks the first time a woman has cracked the Top 10 since the index was created in 2015.