Highest Paid CEOs of 2008
| CEO (Company) | Compensation | |
| 1 | Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone Group ) | $702,440,573 |
| 2 | Lawrence Ellison (Oracle Corp. ) | $556,976,600 |
| 3 | Ray Irani (Occidental Petroleum Corp. ) | $222,639,705 |
| 4 | John Hess (Hess Corp. ) | $159,566,940 |
| 5 | Michael Watford (Ultra Petroleum Corp. ) | $116,929,392 |
| 6 | Aubrey McClendon (Chesapeake Energy Corp. ) | $114,286,867 |
| 7 | Bob Simpson (XTO Energy Inc. ) | $103,485,972 |
| 8 | Mark Papa (EOG Resources, Inc. ) | $90,471,784 |
| 9 | Eugene Isenberg (Nabors Industries Ltd. ) | $79,333,079 |
| 10 | Michael Jeffries (Abercrombie & Fitch Co. ) | $71,795,744 |
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