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