Apple CEO Tim Cook. (Image: Valery Marchive (LeMagIT), via Wikimedia Commons / CC)

Apple CEO Tim Cook is the highest earning chief executive in the US after receiving more than $1 million daily for helming the company last year.
The Wall Street Journal published a list of highest earning CEOs in the US, which shows Cook sitting on his perch atop counterparts.
The report says he earned $378 million in 2011 from a combination of salary and stock, but mostly from the latter as he has …