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America’s best paid CEO (and the rest) – The Wall Street Journal
Median pay reached $12.4 million for CEOs of the biggest US companies in 2018, setting a fourth straight post-recession high.
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From Bob Iger to Warren Buffett and Jack Dorsey: These Are the Highest and Lowest Paid CEOs
Becoming a chief executive officer of a top company seems like the pinnacle of success, so what kind of money do those at the top make? For its annual report on compensation for CEOs of S&P 500 companies, The Wall Street Journal found that it varies widely, with the highest-paid CEO earning $129.4 million in 2018 and the…
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The WSJ CEO Pay Ranking
Median pay reached $12.4 million for CEOs of the biggest U.S. companies in 2018, setting a fourth straight post-recession high even as stock-market returns tumbled at most of the companies. Most S&P 500 CEOs got raises of 5% or better during the year, while total shareholder return was -5.8%, according to a WSJ analysis of…
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S&P 500 Companies’ Highest and Lowest Paid CEOs of 2018
David M. Zaslav, the president and chief executive officer of media company Discovery, Inc., came in at No. 1 with compensation of $129.4 million, according to the Wall Street Journal‘s analysis of data from MyLogIQ. The total is a combination of cash pay, stock pay and other sources. Zaslav’s pay is “nearly all performance-based,” the company said….
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Biotech Is Place to Be for Top Salaries
In biotechnology, the rank and file are well-to-do. Many of the highest-paying employers in the health-care sector—and the entire S&P 500—were biotech companies, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal of annual disclosures for hundreds of big U.S. companies as provided by MyLogIQ. New Jersey-based Celgene Corp. , which sells a treatment of multiple myeloma, had…
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A Tale of Two Scandals: Wells Fargo and Equifax
Wells Fargo and Equifax each suffered embarrassing corporate disasters in the recent past. Yet the companies are at much different points in their recoveries, say legal, governance and management observers. That makes them interesting studies in how boards oversee — or fail to oversee — crises and turnarounds. The three-year cleanup of Wells Fargo’s management and compliance problems…
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Bob Iger Rebuilt The Magic Kingdom—And It’s Likely Made Him Richer Than A Disney Heir
Over the past two weeks, Robert Iger, the CEO of Disney, has made headlines not for Disney’s Avengers box office performance or for his completion of the Disney-Fox merger, but for something more personal: his $65.6 million salary—an amount that Disney heir Abigail Disney recently called “insane.” Both on Twitter and in a Washington Post op-ed, she lamented the salary gap…
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Taser Chief Gets $246 Million Stock-Option Award
The company that sells Tasers to police departments around the world paid its chief executive $246 million last year, according to a proxy filed last month, one of the biggest compensation packages for a corporate leader. The pay came in a package of stock options that Axon Enterprise Inc. gave longtime CEO Patrick Smith last year. However, the…
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Industrial Firms Report Big Swings in Typical Worker’s Pay
A union job at a shipyard, mine or factory usually comes with a steady paycheck, but some U.S. industrial companies are having a hard time figuring out who their typical workers are and how much they make. Several S&P 500 companies in the industrials and materials sector posted big swings in what they said their…
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Agenda Research Vault – Director Churn Report
Agenda partnered with SEC filings analyzer MyLogIQ to obtain data points on the directors appointed to Russell 3000 board seats in the first three months of 2019. The following spreadsheets include additional data points beyond those presented in graphics and text for the article, “Boards on Cusp of Major Generational Shift” and can provide some…
