Top 50 Highest-Paid CEOs in 2010
Friday, May 06, 2011
By Staff, Associated Press

(AP) - The Associated Press analysis of the highest-paid CEOs for 2010 among Standard & Poor's 500 companies includes companies that had the same CEO for all of 2009 and 2010 and that filed proxy statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission between Jan. 1 and April 30.

They are based on the AP's compensation formula, which adds up salary, perks, bonuses, preferential interest rates on pay set aside for later, and company estimates for the value of stock options and stock awards on the day they were granted last year.

Philippe Dauman, Viacom, $84.5 million, up 149 percent

Ray Irani, Occidental Petroleum, $76.1 million, up 142 percent

Leslie Moonves, CBS, $56.9 million, up 32 percent

David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $42.6 million, up 265 percent

Richard Adkerson, Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold, $35.3 million, up 76 percent

John Lundgren, Stanley Black & Decker, $32.6 million, up 253 percent

Brian Roberts, Comcast, $31 million, up 14 percent

Robert Iger, Walt Disney, $28 million, up 30 percent

Alan Mulally, Ford Motor, $26.5 million, up 48 percent

Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner, $26.1 million, up 35 percent

Sam Palmisano, IBM, $25.2 million, up 19 percent

David Simon, Simon Property Group, $24.6 million, up 430 percent

Gregg Steinhafel, Target Corp. $23.9 million, 83 percent

Blackrock, Laurence Fink, $23.8 million, up 50 percent

William Weldon, Johnson & Johnson, $23.2 million, down 9 percent

Brian Goldner, Hasbro, $23 million, up 196 percent

Howard Schultz, Starbucks, $21.7 million, up 45 percent

Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil, $21.5 million, down 1 percent

Kevin Sharer, Amgen, $21.1 million, up 38 percent

Aubrey McClendon, Chesapeake Energy, $21 million, up 13 percent

Gregory Case, Aon, $20.8 million, up 100 percent

Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, $20.8 million, up 1,541 percent

Michael Szymanczyk, Altria, $20.8 million, up 131 percent

Louis Camilleri, Philip Morris International, $20.6 million, down 16 percent

Leslie Wexner, Limited Brands, $20.5 million, up 90 percent

Randall Stephenson, AT&T, $20.2 million, no change

Miles White, Abbott Laboratories, $20 million, down 9 percent

Jay Fishman, Traverlers, $19.8 million, down 2 percent

George Buckley, 3M, $19.7 million, up 41 percent

Louis Chenevert, United Technologies, $19.5 million, up 9 percent

Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon, $19.4 million, up 73 percent

G. Steven Farris, Apache, $19.3 million, up 151 percent

Carol Meyrowitz, TJX Companies, $19.3 million, up 30 percent

Ahmet Kent, Coca-Cola, $19.2 million, up 30 percent

Robert Stevens, Lockheed Martin, $19.1 million, down 7 percent

John Brock, Coca-Cola Enterprises, $19.1 million, up 34 percent

James Hackett, Anadarko Petroleum, $18.8 million, down 20 percent

Michael Duke, Wal-Mart, $18.7 million, down 3 percent

Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon Communications, $18.1 million, up 4 percent

James Mulva, ConocoPhillips, $17.9 million, up 25 percent

Andrew Liveris, Dow Chemical, $17.7 million, up 13 percent

Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm, $17.6 million, up 1 percent

John Stumpf, Wells Fargo, $17.6 million, down 6 percent

Glenn Britt, Time Warner Cable, $17.3 million, up 10 percent

H. Lawrence Culp, Danahar, $17 million, up 54 percent

Susan Ivey, Reynolds American, $16.8 million, up 4 percent

James Cracchiolo, $16.8 million, down 8 percent

J. Brett Harvey, Consol Energy, $16.6 million, up 56 percent

David Snow, Medco Health Solutions, $16.4 million, up 23 percent

Kenneth Chenault, American Express, $16.3 million, down 3 percent

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1500% raise. Holy.. i wish...

(05-06-2011 12:54 PM)Ahhhorsepoo Wrote:  1500% raise. Holy.. i wish...

Before everyone gets upset and throws a hissy, let's post some salaries of Hollywood stars and entertainers. Overpaid and mostly garbage producers.

How about athletes? Getting paid millions to play a kids game!

Stop the CEO bashing, it's merely bashing for those of you who haven't risen up the corporate ladder.

Dang, barely missed the list.

(05-06-2011 09:04 PM)BearcatDave Wrote:  

(05-06-2011 12:54 PM)Ahhhorsepoo Wrote:  1500% raise. Holy.. i wish...

Before everyone gets upset and throws a hissy, let's post some salaries of Hollywood stars and entertainers. Overpaid and mostly garbage producers.

How about athletes? Getting paid millions to play a kids game!

Stop the CEO bashing, it's merely bashing for those of you who haven't risen up the corporate ladder.

I think Athletes are a really bad example as are actors, but lets look at Athletes directly.

Sports is a multi-billion dollar industry. Everyone is making money off of it. TV Networks are bringing in viewers and advertising dollars. Companies are putting out advertising to move product. The owners make a bunch of money as well. The money is there whether the players get a cut of it or not. Professional sports is a rare field where the laborers/producers of the product actually get a decent cut of the profits involved in it. They have used their collective bargaining to achieve good means. They are a very specialized workforce that puts out a product that people will always consume and makes a lot of money for a ton of different people. I have never been one to begrudge athletes for that. It's not like they are making money at someone else's expense. Everyone involved in athletics is making money. Some may try to argue they are at the expense of fans, but fans get the choice of spending money on sports. They are not required to and again the owners are going to set the prices so that they can maximize profits regardless. The players have just be strong enough and organized enough to get their slice of the pie as profits have increased. To me this is how things should work in general.

The big problem people have with CEO's is how their profits overly the last 30 years have disproportionally increased compared to that of the people who work under them. This is not being angry about wealth because they have wealth, it is a belief that part of the responsibility of a CEO should not just be about maximizing personal profits and stock holder value, but of at some level making sure those within your organization are justly compensated. When a company does well, a CEO certainly should, but I just find it worrisome how little everyone else has shared in that success in recent history. The result has been a shrinking middle class and a distribution of wealth that is so drastically skewed towards the wealthiest 1 percent that it rivals time periods like just pre-great depression and the guilded age. That to me is the issue.

I think both traditional industries and sports can be very profitable. The sports industry also has a number of lower paid people, for example people who work in marketing and the front end of the Reds/Bengals etc. Maybe they should also be paid more.

There is always a huge gap between the people at the top and those below. Seems like every organization ends up being a pyramid. Maybe we could find a good example of an organization where everyone is equally paid and is still very profitable. Fighting your way to the top is what motivates people and is what keeps places profitable. The business world is a big game.

(05-07-2011 09:59 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(05-06-2011 09:04 PM)BearcatDave Wrote:  

(05-06-2011 12:54 PM)Ahhhorsepoo Wrote:  1500% raise. Holy.. i wish...

Before everyone gets upset and throws a hissy, let's post some salaries of Hollywood stars and entertainers. Overpaid and mostly garbage producers.

How about athletes? Getting paid millions to play a kids game!

Stop the CEO bashing, it's merely bashing for those of you who haven't risen up the corporate ladder.

I think Athletes are a really bad example as are actors, but lets look at Athletes directly.

Sports is a multi-billion dollar industry. Everyone is making money off of it. TV Networks are bringing in viewers and advertising dollars. Companies are putting out advertising to move product. The owners make a bunch of money as well. The money is there whether the players get a cut of it or not. Professional sports is a rare field where the laborers/producers of the product actually get a decent cut of the profits involved in it. They have used their collective bargaining to achieve good means. They are a very specialized workforce that puts out a product that people will always consume and makes a lot of money for a ton of different people. I have never been one to begrudge athletes for that. It's not like they are making money at someone else's expense. Everyone involved in athletics is making money. Some may try to argue they are at the expense of fans, but fans get the choice of spending money on sports. They are not required to and again the owners are going to set the prices so that they can maximize profits regardless. The players have just be strong enough and organized enough to get their slice of the pie as profits have increased. To me this is how things should work in general.

The big problem people have with CEO's is how their profits overly the last 30 years have disproportionally increased compared to that of the people who work under them. This is not being angry about wealth because they have wealth, it is a belief that part of the responsibility of a CEO should not just be about maximizing personal profits and stock holder value, but of at some level making sure those within your organization are justly compensated. When a company does well, a CEO certainly should, but I just find it worrisome how little everyone else has shared in that success in recent history. The result has been a shrinking middle class and a distribution of wealth that is so drastically skewed towards the wealthiest 1 percent that it rivals time periods like just pre-great depression and the guilded age. That to me is the issue.