2004-09-21
Associated Press
REDMOND -- The world's richest man got a raise last year.
Microsoft Corp.'s chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, earned $901,667 in Microsoft's 2004 fiscal year, up 4.4 percent from a year ago.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, earned the same amount and got the same raise in the fiscal year ended June 30, the Redmond software company said in a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Both had base salaries of $591,667 in 2004, and earned bonuses of $310,000, the company said in the filing. In Microsoft's 2003 fiscal year, they earned a base salary of $550,000 and had bonuses of $313,477.
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Associated Press
REDMOND -- The world's richest man got a raise last year.
Microsoft Corp.'s chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, earned $901,667 in Microsoft's 2004 fiscal year, up 4.4 percent from a year ago.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, earned the same amount and got the same raise in the fiscal year ended June 30, the Redmond software company said in a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Both had base salaries of $591,667 in 2004, and earned bonuses of $310,000, the company said in the filing. In Microsoft's 2003 fiscal year, they earned a base salary of $550,000 and had bonuses of $313,477.
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