Top Apple Lawyer Sees Slight Pay Boost as Legal Docket Grows

Apple Inc. general counsel Katherine Adams received a $27.1 million pay package during fiscal 2022, a slight increase from the year prior, as the company coped with a growing litigation docket.

Adams received $5 million in cash, including $1 million in salary, and $22.1 million in stock awards, Apple disclosed in an annual proxy filing Thursday. She received nearly $27 million in 2021.

The issues Apple is currently wrestling with include lawsuits, a unionization effort in stores, a hiring slowdown, and a pushback over return-to-office protocols.

Apple hired Adams, a former top lawyer at Honeywell International ...