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Here are the retirement and severance packages awarded to five CEOs who left their companies this year and last:

PETER DARBEE: PG&E, Jan. 1, 2005, to April 30, 2011

  • $21.2 million in stock

  • $9.6 million in pension benefits

  • $2.8 million deferred compensation

  • $1.2 million incentive award

    LÉO APOTHEKER: Hewlett-Packard, Sept. 30, 2010, to Sept. 22, 2011

  • $7.2 million severance

  • $2.4 million prorated cash bonus and relocation and repatriation benefits to assist in return to France or Belgium

  • $3.6 million received, accelerated vesting of restricted stock

    DIRK MEYER: AMD, July 17, 2008, to Jan. 10, 2011

  • $8.7 million severance

    CAROL BARTZ: Yahoo, Jan. 13, 2009, to Sept. 6, 2011

  • $3 million severance

  • $477,534 prorated cash bonus

    SCOTT THOMPSON: Yahoo, Jan. 4, 2012, to May 13, 2012

  • $1.5 million cash bonus

  • $5.3 million vested portion of restricted stock

    Sources: Equilar; Securities and Exchange Commission