Apple dominates best-paid list (WashingtonPost) Four of the five highest-paid employees at Standard & Poor's 500 companies aren't chief executive officers. They're Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL ) senior lieutenants receiving compensation packages designed to keep management intact in an increasingly competitive industry. The four executives are Bob Mansfield, Bruce Sewell, Jeffrey Williams and Peter Oppenheimer, according to fiscal 2012 compensation figures for top earners filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. About 80 percent of S&P 500 companies had submitted their numbers as of April 12. Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Touch-Enabled Watch Device (WSJ) Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT ) +0.25% is working on designs for a touch-enabled watch device, executives at suppliers said, potentially joining rivals like Apple Inc. AAPL -1.09% in working on a new class of computing products.