Apple Executive Compensation & Succession Simulator 2027

Executive Compensation Parameters

Adjust baseline salaries, equity grants, and performance vesting multipliers to test 2027 scenarios.

Tim Cook

Chief Executive Officer

Incumbent CEO

Base Salary $3,000,000

Target Equity Grant $50,000,000

Performance Multiplier 1.25x

John Ternus

SVP, Hardware Engineering

Succession Contender

Base Salary $1,500,000

Target Equity Grant $35,000,000

Performance Multiplier 1.40x

Retention Weight 0.85

Succession Timing Horizon

2027 Comparative Financial Outlook

Live calculation of projected total take-home, pay differential, and transition status.

Cook Total Pay

$65,500,000

Equity: $62,500,000

Ternus Total Pay

$50,500,000

Equity: $49,000,000

Pay Gap Delta

$15,000,000

Cook leads by 29.7%

Tim Cook $65,500,000

John Ternus $50,500,000

Base Salary

Cook Performance Equity

Ternus Performance Equity

Compensation Component	Tim Cook (CEO)	John Ternus (SVP)	Net Variance
Base Salary	$3,000,000	$1,500,000	+$1,500,000
Target Grant Amount	$50,000,000	$35,000,000	+$15,000,000
Performance Realization	1.25x ($62.5M)	1.40x ($49.0M)	+$13,500,000
Total Projected Pay	$65,500,000	$50,500,000	+$15,000,000

Reporting Context & Assumptions

Prompted by recent reports (e.g. Gizmodo's coverage on Apple's executive succession landscape), this simulator computes projected compensation incorporating customary Apple SEC Form DEF 14A equity structures: fixed base salary supplemented by performance-based Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) subject to relative total shareholder return (TSR) multipliers.

Saved executive pay scenario arithmetic

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Saved Cook scenario grants fifty million equity and multiplies by one point two five to earn sixty-two point five million. Bars share zero at eight pixels per million dollars. Executive roles, compensation and succession narrative are source assumptions, not verified filings or current corporate announcements. Three million base salary adds to modeled sixty-two point five million equity, giving sixty-five point five million total. Bars compare equity and total at eight pixels per million. The source retention slider does not enter this particular pay formula; it must not be described as a multiplier of this result. Saved Ternus grant thirty-five million times one point four is forty-nine million. Add one point five base for fifty point five million. Comparing with sixty-five point five yields fifteen million modeled gap. Bars share zero at eight pixels per million. Scenario labels about succession are programmed date branches, not verified executive transitions. Complete raw native export/reset and responsive allocation remain checked.