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Reports claim Screven made just under $21 million in 2024, including a $900,000 salary and around $17.4 million in stock awards. Oracle's annual ... targets of the day job.

Oracle has recently mulled reducing costs by as much as $1 billion and as a result, possibly letting go of thousands of its employees as early as August, according to a report published Friday by ...