and she s escorted vice president biden around the detroit auto show, then this, the honor of fortune magazine. she s been named the number one, then you have ibm, number three of pepsi, then the ceo of brazil s petro gas is number four. as for her pay, recently mary bar told fortune she never asked for a promotion or a raise and being committed to the job is her key to success, but she s being rewarded anyway, so the board agreed to pay her $1.6 million in the annual sort of cash base salary, then she s eligible for another $2.8 million under a short-term incentive plan, then she s got stock awards tied to company performance, sort of like on a longer term basis. the base salary for a lot of these big execs is a starting point. a lot of stock options can make up of what you take home. despite reports that she s getting less than her male predecessor, apparently that s