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…
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…
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…
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…
As companies face continuous pressure to bring on diverse directors with current expertise in technology and cyber security, there are increasing indications that boards’ recruiting in response to that prodding has led to the first blush of a new generational shift on boards. Several new data points show that there has been a ramping up…
McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) has been among the American companies that pay its workers the least. As some evidence of the ongoing pay problem at the fast-food chain, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has released the compensation of McDonald’s CEO Stephen Easterbrook. He was paid $15.9 million in 2018. That is 2,124 times the median…
In a highly anticipated announcement, Uber this month took the leap to go public. In the ride-hailing company’s registration statement, the company revealed that its top officers raked in between nearly $10 million and $48 million last year. Directors serving on the boards of the new gig-economy unicorns that either have filed or are expected to file IPOs this…
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D., Del.) is running for President again. And one of Donald Trump’s 2016 rivals thinks that Mr. Biden is the most formidable of the potential 2020 rivals. The website Mediaite notes that former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who ran against Mr. Trump in the last round of Republican primaries, sees a potential GOP problem…
It was a fruitful year for the rank and file at oil-and-gas companies, from Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM 0.25% to Phillips 66. PSX -2.57% Oil-and-gas drillers and refiners had some of the highest-paid median workers in the energy and utility sectors in 2018, according to The Wall Street Journal analysis of annual pay disclosures for hundreds of big U.S. companies as provided by…
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon’s total compensation reached nearly $24 million during the last year as the company continued to hold its ground against Amazon and other rival retailers. McMillon’s salary was about $1.3 million and he was eligible for stock awards based on performance and values at $15.6 million. He is also eligible for about…
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