Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg set a new record for corporate compensation in 2012 with a package worth more than $US2.278 billion ($2.37 billion), according to a survey by a corporate governance firm.

The report by GMI Ratings showed Zuckerberg's salary of $US503,000 and bonus of $US266,000 were eclipsed by stock options worth some $US2.27 billion.

This was the first year the survey found any chief executive collected more than $US1 billion, according to the GMI report.

One other CEO's compensation also topped $US1 billion in 2012, US energy giant Kinder Morgan's Richard Kinder, paid a salary of $US1 and given stock worth more than $US1.1 billion.

Those two overshadowed other CEOs, with the third-highest paid being Sirius XM Radio's Mel Karmazin at $US255 million, followed by Liberty Media's Gregory Maffei ($US254 million) and Apple's Tim Cook ($US143 million).