Photos: What would $30,460,186 pay for?

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Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent is usually the highest-paid among the CEOs of Georgia’s publicly-held companies. While much of his 2012 pay was in the form of stock awards, perks, and future retirement benefits, in addition to cash, here are some examples of what the money could pay for.

Coca-Cola Chief Executive Muhtar Kent got a 5 percent raise last year that boosted his pay to $30.5 million, as modest growth in the company’s global sales volumes and profits equated with bigger cash and stock awards. To learn more, print and digital subscribers can read the full story about the Coke executive’s compensation in Saturday’s AJC. In the meantime, click on to see some examples of what his money could pay for.

871 Atlanta jobs (at the median metro-area annual wage of $34,965)

646 college educations ($47,168 for four years of undergraduate study at Georgia State University)

216 new top-of-the-line 7-series BMWs ($140,700 each)

185 metro Atlanta homes (at the median sale price of $165,000)

19 times the lifetime earnings of a typical worker (45 years working at the median Atlanta wage for a total of $1,573,425)

Six new 80-foot Hatteras motor yachts ($5,340,000)

Two times the cost of City Hall East at $13,500,000, the amount developers paid the city in 2010

One "pre-owned" Gulfstream G450 corporate jet ($24,950,000)

MARTA’s annual operating deficit of $30 million

One new roof for the Georgia Dome at $30 million (top estimate in studies done for Georgia World Congress Center Authority)

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Coca-Cola Chief Executive Muhtar Kent got a 5 percent raise last year that boosted his pay to $30.5 million, as modest growth in the company’s global sales volumes and profits equated with bigger cash and stock awards. To learn more, print and digital subscribers can read the full story about the Coke executive’s compensation in Saturday’s AJC. In the meantime, click on to see some examples of what his money could pay for.

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