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Highest-Paid CEOs for 2008 [AP]

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Comments (28)

  1. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 1:27 PM

    by the time Obama is done with America they will be calling it France…or Fatter France

  2. Posted by Anal_yst | May 1, 2009 at 1:27 PM

    Heaven forbid anyone at the times (or AP) compute the value of the options now, for comparisons sake…

  3. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 1:31 PM

    WTF?! Jamie Dimon should be at the top. Chesapeake Energy and Motorola (moreso) have been complete shit for the past year. Motorola shouldn’t even have money for an incentive award. Must suck to be a shareholder for companies like that.

  4. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 1:33 PM

    Sanjay really did a bang-up job at Motorola

  5. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 1:33 PM

    @3- hello? can you read the headline? obviously these numbers are a bit off from what they’re at now.

  6. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 1:35 PM

    Anal,
    Nothing is preventing you from doing that yourself.

  7. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM

    solid gold.
    http://gawker.com/5235998/cnbc-the-movie
    CNBC the movie

  8. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 1:41 PM

    @7- solid gold for people who dont watch cnbc/read dealbreaker every day and know all of that already.

  9. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 1:42 PM

    IMHO Camilleri is the only one that has earned his keep

  10. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 2:01 PM

    @4 Sanjay, is that you? Wouldn’t expect any less from a turd like you …

  11. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    Here you go Anal_yst-my bill is in the mail
    Aubrey :25,000 shares avg strike:$10.08 value:$6M
    Sanjay 16.6M shares avg strike $9.82($71M)
    Robert 5M shares as:$27.53 v:~($10M)
    Lloyd 750K as:$178.55 v:~($23M)
    Ken 6.8M as $48.90 v:~($131M)
    Vikrim 3M as:$30,50 v:~($81M)
    Steven 319K as: 58.64 v:~$12M
    Louis- ? I’m not seeing any
    Kevin 1.9M as: $22.83 v:$12.4M
    Jamie 8.7M as:32.1 v:$18.8M
    disclaimers-options awarded all types-values approx based on yesterdays closed
    questions-dont care-too busy

  12. Posted by AJ | May 1, 2009 at 2:04 PM

    I love that Aubrey got a shit-ton of options/awards to help make up for the fact that he had to sell like $1 billion worth in a margin call. What a d-bag

  13. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 2:09 PM

    aubrey’s had them since 03-nothing new awarded

  14. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 2:11 PM

    Chenault needs to be punched in the face
    Iger needs to be kicked in the sack
    -that is all

  15. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 2:17 PM

    Obviously Sanjay was the smartest guy in the room.

  16. Posted by Anal_yst | May 1, 2009 at 2:20 PM

    @11
    Appreciate it, but my point was more the clearly-biased reporting by the AP and the NYT in not posting “awarded” value vs. current value.
    I’d boil it down to a lack of journalistic integrity, but I’m not entirely honest the editorial staff even understands why presenting only the initial award value doesn’t present an accurate measure…

  17. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 2:23 PM

    Sanjay. Call me.
    -Indra (“america is the middle finger”) Nooyi

  18. Posted by AJ | May 1, 2009 at 2:30 PM

    @13 WTF are you talking about? They redid McClendon’s contract in December 2008 and it included a one-time cash bonus of $75 million and at least $30 million or so of stock plus some other ridiculous stuff.

  19. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 2:33 PM

    No worries Anal_yst. If they knew what they were doing and stated todays values it would probably be wrong. I would have looked at a few and pointed it out anyway. these filings area bitch. BTW does the AP still send a $5 check to stringers haha

  20. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 2:43 PM

    18-I just looked at options, not direct holdings-that was the question.

  21. Posted by AJ | May 1, 2009 at 2:57 PM

    yeah bess cut off the full sentence:
    “The total pay figures are rounded and 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.”
    so those numbers aren’t just options

  22. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 3:01 PM

    @aj– perhaps the sentence was cut off b/c the key point was this shit is being calculated from its value “LAST YEAR”?

  23. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 3:05 PM

    @21 you sound just like my accountant of a girlfriend. Too much analysis and not enough “putting out”

  24. Posted by AJ | May 1, 2009 at 3:09 PM

    @24 For a lot of them (particularly Jha), the values will be misleading since most of his comp was stock and the value of the stock has plummeted since the grant date. However, for someone like Aubrey who was paid mostly in cash, that $100 million+ number is not overstating what he was paid, particularly since his contract was done at year end and the stock is actually up since then.

  25. Posted by AJ | May 1, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    @24 For a lot of them (particularly Jha), the values will be misleading since most of his comp was stock and the value of the stock has plummeted since the grant date. However, for someone like Aubrey who was paid mostly in cash, that $100 million+ number is not overstating what he was paid, particularly since his contract was done at year end and the stock is actually up since then.
    Also just looking at options isn’t too useful since a lot of them (Philip Morris) received stock grants.

  26. Posted by AJ | May 1, 2009 at 3:12 PM

    f me and my double-posting, i’m quitting after that

  27. Posted by guest | May 1, 2009 at 11:33 PM

    @5: What the hell does that have to do with anything?! Who cares what they’ll be in the future, when your company is being run like shit, you don’t award the CEO a $100+ MM option contract. Are you on the Citi board, by chance?

  28. Posted by guest | May 2, 2009 at 10:11 PM

    Chenault is a piece of shit, whom I wouldn’t hire to carry the shit from my ass to the water in the toilet bowl.
    Correct salary for numbers 1-10 = number/10
    -Iceman

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