Ursula Burns earns 18.7 million dollars per year as salary and gathers a massive net worth of $15 million. Her education background tells that she has obtained a degree in Mechanical engineering. She is the 29th most powerful woman in the world.

An inspirational lady, Ursu=la Burns tasted success like no other did. Her unique leadership quality opened her a way to success.

Ursula Burns is the first black-American woman CEO of Fortune 500 Company

Currently serving as chairman and CEO of Xerox Cooperation, Ursula Burns is the first black-American lady to succeed another lady as head of a Fortune 500 company. She succeeded Anne Mulcahy as CEO of Xerox in 2009.

She has been serving Xerox for more than 30 years. She worked for Xerox as a summer intern in 1980 and became a permanent employee in 1981.

Her wonderful quote "I didn't think when I walked into the Company, that I'd be CEO. I did expect to be successful, though." clearly reflects her quality as a leader. Her hard work and leadership quality is the main factor which opened the path for her to earn a huge salary.

In 2008, she was the president of the company and used to get paid $887,500 in salary with a bonus of $554,688. In 2014, she received $15.5 million worth stock topping her salary of $1.1 million and a cash bonus of $2 million.

She is a board of director of Change The Equation and American Express Corporation Exxon Mobil Corporation. Burns provides a leadership counsel to numerous educational and non-profit organizations like National Academy Foundation, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), MIT and so on.

The list doesn’t end here. In 2010, she was appointed vice-chairperson of the President’s Export Council by U.S. President Barack Obama. She served as Vice Chairwoman of The Business Council from 2013 to 2014.

In 2014, Forbes placed her on the 22nd spot on the list of most powerful woman in the world and on 29th in 2015. She was awarded $13 million yearly from 2010 to 2012.

Ursula Burns is a mechanical engineer with an exquisite leadership quality

Looking at her education background, she is a Mechanical Engineer. In 1980, Ursula went on to obtain a bachelor of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University.

Eventually, in 1981 she collected a master of science in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University. She has completed her high school journey in Cathedral High School which is a Catholic all-girls school in New York.

Ursula is collecting a large amount of salary and has grabbed a huge amount of net worth as well because of her leadership quality. This has been possible because of Ursula Burns’s dedication and impressive educational background.