This is the single largest CEO payout in more than a decade, bested in recent memory only by Apple's previous CEO Steve Jobs, who was granted stock options worth more than $600 million at the time they were given to him in 2000. Of course, there was some option backdating scandal that ensued in the following years, but Tim Cook's package shows that Apple really knows how to take care of its own, and keep the exclusive talent that made the company what it is now.