Article: Exxon Mobil shareholders reject compensation limits

DALLAS -- Shareholders of Exxon Mobil Corp., whose last chief executive took home $147 million when he retired, overwhelmingly rejected resolutions to rein in compensation at the oil company's annual meeting on Wednesday.

Chairman and Chief Executive Rex W. Tillerson said some shareholders sent a signal by withholding votes for board members who approved former CEO Lee R. Raymond's widely publicized pay and pension packages.

"We all recognize that there has been a lot of controversy and comment around compensation," said Tillerson, who took over in January after Raymond retired. "Probably most likely what we were seeing is some people voting their disapproval of how that was handled."

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