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To see how pay measures up to performance, BusinessWeek uses two sets
of criteria over a three-year period. One compares what the boss made with
how well he did for shareholders. The other compares how well the company
did.






Executives who gave shareholders the most for their pay...



                                        TOTAL PAY*  SHAREHOLDER  RELATIVE
                                        (millions)    RETURN**     INDEX



1  DAVID RICKEY Applied Micro Circuits     $4.5       4,751%        1070
2  MARK LEVIN Millennium Pharmaceuticals    1.4       1,203         935
3  IRWIN MARK JACOBS Qualcomm               5.5       1,233         243
4  DANE MILLER Biomet                       1.1         135         210
5  GEORGE PERLEGOS Atmel                    1.3         151         198






...and those who gave shareholders the least



1  CHARLES WANG Computer Associates      $698.2         -63%       0.05
2  MICHAEL EISNER Walt Disney             699.1         -10        0.13
3  HENRY SILVERMAN Cendant                212.6         -72        0.13
4  PETER KARMANOS Compuware               112.6         -61        0.35
5  SANFORD WEILL Citigroup                482.2          96        0.41






Executives whose companies did the best relative to their pay...



                                      TOTAL PAY*  AVG. RETURN   RELATIVE
                                      (millions)   ON EQUITY     INDEX



1  CHARLES MATHEWSON Intl. Game Tech.   $1.3          51%          20
2  FRANK SALIZZONI H&R Block             3.2          24           12
3  DANE MILLER Biomet                    1.1          17           11
4  JOHN ADAMS AutoZone                   2.7          22           11
5  JAMES SINEGAL Costco Wholesale        2.0          15           11






...and those whose companies did the worst relative to their pay



1  JOHN STAFFORD American Home Prod.   $44.0          -9%        0.11
2  SHELDON ERIKSON Cooper Cameron       65.6           9         0.26
3  MICHAEL EISNER Walt Disney          699.1           6         0.32
4  GEOFF TATE Rambus                     5.8          -7         0.33
5  CHARLES WANG Computer Associates    698.2          72         0.38






* Salary, bonus, and long-term compensation paid for the entire three-
year period  1998, 1999, and 2000
** Stock price at the end of 2000, plus dividends reinvested for three
years, divided by stock price at the end of 1997






DATA: EXECUCOMP, PROVIDED BY STANDARD & POOR'S INSTITUTIONAL MARKET
SERVICES, A DIVISION OF THE McGRAW-HILL COMPANIES