Apple CEO Tim Cook started out with a $1.10-an-hour job

Apple’s Tim Cook took home $74.6 million last year. but he started out in the world of work with a humble $1.10-an-hour job.

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00:00Tim Cook is one of the highest-paid business leaders in America, but his path to the C-suite

00:04started when he was just 11 years old.

00:07Cook recently told the Table Manners podcast that for his first job, he worked as a paper

00:11boy in his hometown of Robertsdale, Alabama.

00:14He then graduated to Flipping Burgers for just $1.10 an hour at a local restaurant to

00:19help save for college.

00:20Cook was the first in his family to earn a college degree, and said in order to finance

00:25his MBA program at Duke University, he worked full-time.

00:28His early experience with hard work clearly paid off.

00:31After climbing the ranks at IBM for 12 years, Steve Jobs invited Cook to join Apple in 1998.

00:37Now, Cook is one of the highest-paid CEOs in America, and took home $74.6 million last

00:44year.