The list of the top-10 biggest spenders on aircraft perks added a new member to its ranks: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. In 2018, Sandberg’s pay package included nearly $909,000 in aircraft perks, according to SEC filings analyzer MyLogIQ. She ranks fourth on Agenda’s list of top-10 air travel spenders in the S&P 500. First on the list is, once again, Mark Zuckerberg, Sandberg’s boss….
The mechanics of chief-executive pay have grown ever more complex, but the rules remain simple: Strong performers get a raise. So do most of the rest. For the fourth year straight, the biggest U.S. companies set CEO pay records in 2018, a Wall Street Journal analysis found, even as a majority delivered negative stock-market returns…
Halfway through this season of “American Idol,” Katy Perry hit a milestone. That’s when her earnings as a judge on the ABC show surpassed what most chief executives in the S&P 500 made all of last year. The Wall Street Journal this week released its annual analysis of CEO pay, which hit another post-recession record in…
Median pay reached $12.4 million for CEOs of the biggest US companies in 2018, setting a fourth straight post-recession high.
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…