Oracle CEO Lawrence Ellison had the second highest CEO pay in 2011 with $77.6 million in total compensation, according to Equilar. Ellison's pay increased 11 percent from the previous year. Forbes' 2012 third richest person in the U.S. and the world's sixth richest with a net worth of $36 billion, he has been CEO of the software company since he founded it in 1977. (Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images)