Thus Mary Barra may have finally safe hands. The new head of General Motors earned $ 14.4 million this year. This lets her predecessor Dan Akerson far behind.

Since January, Acting General Motors chief Mary Barra gets a higher salary than her predecessor. The engineer can expect this year at 14.4 million dollars (10.6 million euros), as the parent company of Opel announced in Detroit on Monday. Predecessor Dan Akerson had earned in previous years, each over 9 million dollars.