China's top social network paid a salary nearly double that of Apple's highest paid person

Tencent, one of China's biggest internet companies, is paying out some serious salaries.

The company, which owns the country's most used messenger app, WeChat, paid an undisclosed employee some $40 million (HKD 311 million) in salary and bonus in 2016, according to a company filing [pdf] with the Hong Kong stock exchange. 

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That's higher than the top salary of $35 million (HKD 274 million) it paid out to one individual in 2015.

To put the top-earning $40 million in perspective, Apple's highest paid executive, senior vice president of retail, Angela Ahrendts, made $22.9 million in 2016. Read more...

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