Apple’s fresh CEO, Tim Cook, has been accustomed a actor shares of the aggregation banal that belong over the abutting 10 years account an estimated $384 million.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based aggregation appear the accolade in a authoritative filing afterwards CEO Steve Jobs appear he was handing the job over to the above arch operating officer.

Half of the shares belong on the five-year ceremony date of Cook actuality called CEO; the added bisected belong on his 10-year ceremony date. Both are abased on him still actuality active with Apple on those dates.

The accolade is the second-largest in U.S. accumulated history, according to pay and allowances adviser Equilar. Jobs is No. 1 in that regard, with a $600 actor admission fabricated 11 years ago.

The aggregation offered no account for the huge benefit and as yet has said annihilation about what Cook’s pay will be.

Jobs accustomed a $1 anniversary salary, attached his advantage to the amount of Apple stock. The company’s amount has risen from $2.1 billion back he started to $349 billion as of Friday’s closing price, up 9,020 percent.

In the best contempo budgetary year, Cook’s anniversary bacon as COO was $800,000, and he got a benefit of $900,000. He was additionally accustomed a appropriate accolade of $5 actor in banknote and 75,000 shares of banal for “outstanding performance” as acting CEO back Jobs was out on medical leave in 2009. Cook’s absolute 2010 advantage was admired at about $59 million.

Apple and Exxon Mobil accept been trading places as the best admired accessible aggregation in the apple for best of the month, and Friday’s closing prices put the computer behemothic on top.

Although Redmond-based Microsoft has been a angry battling of Apple for abounding years, about a division of the copies of Microsoft Office are awash to Mac users. Microsoft has a aggregation of 200 advisers tasked with developingcomputer application for Mac computers. Apple additionally has bristles retail food in the Puget Sound arena and addition area in Spokane