Oracle Corp.’s Larry Ellison was the highest-paid US chief executive last year with total compensation of $192 million, a survey by an independent corporate governance group found.

Three Wall Street executives were held up by a Congressional Democrats today as poster boys for executive compensation run amok.

Two of the three - E. Stanley O’Neal, chairman and chief executive of Merrill Lynch, and Charles O. Prince III, head of Citigroup - lost their jobs last fall after the collapse of the subprime mortgage market which they had once ridden to huge profits.