The synthesis of Me(6)Te in 1990 stimulated the exploration of hexamethylchalcogen potential energy surfaces. This earlier ab initio work focused only on the D-3 conformers, but it has been noted that the pseudooctahedral X(CH3)(6) compounds show either D-3 or S-6 symmetry. Here are reported the results of an ab initio molecular orbital study of the hexamethylchalcogens confined to S-6 symmetry. Stationary points were found for each of the three hexamethylchalcogens studied and were shown to be minima for the two larger hexamethylchalcogens. Each of the S-6 stationary points found was energetically higher lying than the earlier reported D-3 counterpart. These energy differences are discussed in terms of nuclear repulsion and molecular orbital bonding considerations.