HP raised the annual salary of Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman to $1.5 million from $1, the company said in a regulatory filing. Whitman’s base pay was increased to bring her compensation “to a competitive level among the salaries of the chief executive officers of HP’s peer companies." http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/17/us-hp-ceo-idUSBRE9BG1EE20131217 Well done, Meg, want to be at this base pay level ;)