17 Highest Paid CEOs in the World in 2017

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8. Safra A. Catz

Compensation: $40.94 million

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL)‘s CEO Safra Catz is the highest paid female CEO in the U.S and the highest paid female on our list of the 17 highest paid CEOs in the world in 2017. She joined the company in 1999 and between 2005 and 2014 she served as the company’s President. In 2011, Catz was appointed Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL)’s CFO, holding the position until 2014, when she replaced founder/CEO Larry Ellison together with Mark Hurd, the second CEO of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL).

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