While the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted millions of jobs and most businesses, many workers kept their jobs and their salaries — and some saw pay rise. Median pay changed by 5% or less either way at about a third of S&P 500 companies. It rose by more than 5% at 184 companies, and fell by more than 5% at…
Move over, Elon Musk and Tim Cook. There is a new name breaking into the list of the highest-paid chief executives: Chad Richison, the founder and CEO of payroll processor Paycom Software Inc. The Oklahoma City billionaire last year was awarded compensation valued at $211 million by Paycom, the company disclosed in the annual proxy statement it filed…
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….
Salaries and wages have always been a hot-button issue no matter what industry you may work in. For the second year in a row, a majority of U.S. publicly traded companies such as Amazon, JPMorgan and Walmart have disclosed how much their employees earn on average and, more importantly, how that pay compares with its CEO’s salary. The employee-pay disclosure was…