The 10 highest paid CEOs
May 27, 2014
They’re the $10 million men and women.
Propelled by a soaring stock market, the median pay package for a CEO rose above eight figures for the first time last year. The head of a typical large public company earned a record $10.5 million, an increase of 8.8 percent from $9.6 million in 2012, according to an Associated Press/Equilar pay study.
Last year was the fourth straight year that CEO compensation rose following a decline during the Great Recession. The median CEO pay package climbed more than 50 percent over that stretch. A CEO now makes about 257 times the average worker’s salary, up sharply from 181 times in 2009.
Here are the 10 highest-paid CEOs of 2013:
- Anthony Petrello, Nabors Industries, $68.2 million, up 246 percent
- Leslie Moonves, CBS, $65.6 million, up 9 percent
- Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, $55.3 million, up 294 percent
- Stephen Kaufer, TripAdvisor, $39 million, up 510 percent
- Philippe Dauman, Viacom, $37.2 million, up 11 percent
- Leonard Schleifer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, $36.3 million, up 21 percent
- Robert Iger, Walt Disney, $34.3 million, up 46 percent
- David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $33.3 million, down 33 percent
- Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner, $32.5 million, up 27 percent
- Brian Roberts, Comcast, $31.4 million, up 8 percent
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