Microsoft’s 14-month rent of former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop cost the firm at least $18 million, or about $1.3 million each month.

Elop was ousted from Microsoft Wednesday after a reorganization of the company eliminated his Devices division by folding it into the same group responsible for Windows. Terry Myerson, who led the OS division, will head the combined Windows and Devices Group (WDG).

The $18 million was Microsoft’s part of Elop’s Nokia exit package when Microsoft’s $7.9 billion purchase of most of the Finnish firm’s phone assets finalized in late April 2014. Under the terms of his contract with Nokia, he was entitled to 18 months of his base salary, his cash bonus, and accelerated vesting of his outstanding equity awards. The total: About $25.4 million at the September 2013 date of a Nokia filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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