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CEOs who make a fortune: 10 highest paid CEOs
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Take a look at 10 highest paid CEOs here...
Take a look at 10 highest paid CEOs here...
David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $156.1 million, up 368per cent
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Leslie Moonves, CBS, $54.4 million, down 17 per cent
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Philippe Dauman, Viacom, $44.3 million, up 19 per cent
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Robert Iger, Walt Disney, $43.7 million, up 27 per cent
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Marissa Mayer, Yahoo, $42.1 million, up 69 per cent
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Leonard Schleifer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, $42 million, up 16 per cent
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Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com $39.9 million, up 27 per cent
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Jeffrey Leiden, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, $36.6 million, up 179 per cent
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Brian Roberts, Comcast, $33 million, up 5 per cent
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Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner, $32.7 million, unchanged
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For its annual study of CEO pay, The Associated Press used data provided by Equilar, an executive compensation research firm.
Equilar examined the regulatory filings detailing the pay packages of 338 companies. Equilar looked at companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index that filed proxy statements with federal regulators between Jan. 1 and April 30, 2015. To avoid the distortions caused by sign-on bonuses, the sample includes only CEOs in place for at least two years.
To calculate CEO pay, Equilar adds salary, bonus, perks, stock awards, stock option awards and other pay components.
Stock awards can either be time-based, or performance-based, meaning the CEO has to meet certain goals before getting them. Stock options usually give the CEO the right to buy shares in the future at the price they're trading at when the options are granted. All are meant to tie the CEO's pay to the company's performance.
To determine what stock and option awards are worth, Equilar uses the value of an award on the day it is granted, as shown in a company's proxy statement. For options, this includes an estimate of what the award could be worth in the future. Their actual value in the future can vary widely from what the company estimates.
Equilar calculated that the median CEO pay in 2014 was $10.6 million. That's the midpoint, meaning half the CEOs made more and half made less.
Here's a breakdown of 2014 pay compared with 2013 pay. Because the AP looks at median numbers, rather than averages, the components of CEO pay do not add up to the total.
-Base salary: $1.1 million, up 3.6 percent
-Bonus: $1.9 million, down 1.8 percent
-Perks: $180,412, up 10.4 percent
-Stock awards: $5 million, up 11.7 percent
-Option awards $1.17 million, down 21.7 percent
-Total: $10.6 million, up 0.8 percent
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