The Highest-Paid CEOs of the Decade

Founder and CEO of Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, was the highest-paid executive of the last decade, bringing home $1.84 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. Barry Diller, head of IAC/InterActive (which owns The Daily Beast) and Expedia.com (spun off five years ago), comes in second with $1.14 billion. In third place is Ray Irani, chief of Occidental Petroleum Corp., with $857 million; in fourth, Apple's Steve Jobs with $749 million, and rounding out the top five is Richard Fairbank of Capital One Financial Corp. with $569 million. Four of the top 25 best-paid chief executives worked in the financial industry. Four of the top 10 headed companies that lost money for shareholders over the last 10 years.