Boeing reported that its five highest-paid officers had $583,423 in combined personal use of company aircraft in 2003.

A 1990 salary and compensation survey of 799 major companies showed that of the highest-paid officers and directors, less than one-half of 1 percent were women.

From 1970 to 2000, according to a Harvard study, the median compensation awarded to the three highest-paid officers at major American corporations rose to $4.6 million from $850,000.

The five highest-paid officers received more than $53 million last year, up from about $39 million in 2003.

As of 2011, a tentaive agreement will make Toronto police the country's highest-paid officers by increasing wages over 11 per cent over the next four years.

The company's five highest-paid officers combined received $42 million in 2002.

For the five highest-paid officers, it added up to more than $850,000 last year, though that was down from more than $1.1 million in 2002, Mr. Ferris said.

In 1998, Mr. Harman handed off the chief executive title, but he remains executive chairman and the company's highest-paid officer.

Police personnel earned 15 of the township's top 20 salaries in 2006 with the highest-paid officer grossing nearly $78,000, according to figures released by the township in 2007.

That means she was not among the five highest-paid officers, all male, including the chairman Sanford I. Weill, 71, who is no longer an executive.