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The 30 highest-paid CEOs in tech

These 30 tech CEOs made a combined $662 million in 2016.

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While media companies dominate the list of top paid CEOs, leaders of tech companies aren't far behind.

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Combined, the top 30 CEOs in tech made $662 million in 2016, according to a new report out from Equilar, an executive compensation data firm, in partnership with the New York Times.

The study only looked at executives at publicly-traded companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that had filed proxy statements before May 1.

Each exec's total compensation for 2016 includes salary, cash bonuses, the grant-date value of stock option awards, and other compensation, which includes perks like security expenses. (You can read Equilar and The New York Times full methodology here).

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Of the list of the top 200 highest-paid CEOs, 30 are in the tech industry, helming companies that make everything from semiconductors to cloud services.

Here's which tech CEOs brought home the most bacon in 2016:

30. Ursula Burns, Xerox: $13.1 million

29. Marc Benioff, Salesforce: $13.2 million

28. Glen Post, CenturyLink: $13.6 million

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27. Frank Bisignano, First Data: $13.8 million

26. William Brown, Harris Corp: $13.9 million

25. Patrick Gelsinger, VMware: $14.8 million

24. Richard Templeton, Texas Instruments: $15 million

23. Chuck Robbins, Cisco: $16 million

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22. Lowell McAdam, Verizon: $17.4 million

21. Satya Nadella, Microsoft: $17.7 million

20. Pierre Nanterme, Accenture: $18.5 million

19. Brad Smith, Intuit: $18.8 million

18. Brian Krzanich, Intel: $19.1 million

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17. Bill Nuti, NCR: $19.2 million

16. Gary Dickerson, Applied Materials: $19.7 million

15. Gary Norcross, Fidelity National Information Services: $20 million

14. Shantanu Narayen, Adobe: $20 million

13. John Legere, T-Mobile: $20.1 million

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12. Henry Fernandez, MSCI: $22.2 million

11. Kirill Tatarinov, Citrix Systems: $22.3 million

10. Hock Tan, Broadcom: $24.7 million

9. Randall Stephenson, AT&T: $25 million

8. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo: $24.7 million

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7. James Peterson, Microsemi: $28 million

6. Dion Weisler, HP: $28.2 million

5. Ginny Rometty, IBM: $32.3 million

4. Meg Whitman, Hewlett Packard Enterprise: $32.9 million

3. Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard: $33.1 million

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2. Safra Catz, co-CEO of Oracle: $40.9 million

1. Mark Hurd, co-CEO of Oracle: $41.1 million

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