The 10 Highest Paid CEOs of 2013
Total Pay in 2013: $68.2 million
Petrello's pay ballooned by 246 percent – because, as the AP noted, oilfield-services company Nabors paid him a hefty $60 million to buy out his previous contract since shareholders were unhappy with how it was paying executives
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Total Pay in 2013: $65.6 million
Moonves saw his pay rise by 9 percent as CBS’s stock rose nearly 70 percent.
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Total Pay in 2013: $55.3 million
The CEO of the Phoenix-based mega producer of copper and gold got a one-time payment of nearly $37 million to renegotiate his contract. That led his total pay to shoot up 294 percent.
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Total Pay in 2013: $39 Million
Kaufer’s pay surged by 510 percent and far surpassed that of his peers in the travel start-up industry, including Priceline’s Jeffery Body, who brought in a cool $15 million. Kaufer’s compensation includes $38 million in stock options.
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Total Pay in 2013: $37.2 million
The chief of the cable network empire saw his pay rise by 11 percent this year. However, his compensation was far below the $84.7 million Dauman earned in 2011, when he topped the list as the highest paid CEO in the country.
Total Pay in 2013: $36.3 million
Schleifer’s pay shot up 21 percent this year, making him the highest paid CEO in the pharmaceutical industry. Regeneron’s vision-loss drug Eylea brought in $1.41 billion in the U.S. for 2013, a year-over-year increase of 70 percent, according to FiercePharma.
Leonard Schleifer
Total Pay in 2013: $34.3 million
Iger is no stranger to this annual list. In 2012, he was among the top 3 Fortune 100 CEO earners, and his pay soared 46 percent this year. The Disney chief could be on his way out though. He is reportedly on the Major Baseball League’s shortlist to be the next MLB commissioner. Iger’s Disney contract is up in 2016.
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Total Pay in 2013: $33.3 million
Zaslav saw his pay slide 33 percent in 2013, but don’t feel too bad for him. Zaslav just signed a new contract at the beginning of the year and stands to rake in more than $110 million in compensation in 2014, Bloomberg reported.
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Total Pay in 2013: $32.5 million
Time Warner’s CEO got 27 percent more in compensation last year than the year before. Bewkes’ compensation accounts for about 53 percent of the total paid to the top five Time Warner officers. That’s up 48 percent from 2012. According to Deadline.com, he made 5.5 times the average of his four top lieutenants.
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Total Pay in 2013: $31.4 million
Roberts presides over the massive and growing cable conglomerate that has already bought up NBCUniversal and is looking to add Time Warner Cable, if regulators approve. His pay shot up 8 percent his year.
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