The Company Beat Archive: Executive compensation
The highest-paid CEOs of the past decade
The Wall Street Journal has a list of the top-paid CEOs of the past decade, and there's a local name rounding out the top five, just after Steve Jobs: Richard Fairbank, chief executive of McLean, Va.-based Capital One. According to...
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July 27, 2010; 6:10 PM ET |
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'Pay czar' calls out banks for excessive pay
The government's "pay czar" announced Friday that 17 companies benefiting from federal bailout funds handed out $1.6 billion in excess executive compensation at the height of the financial crisis. Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's special master for compensation, examined executives earning more than $500,000 at the 419 firms that received taxpayer assistance. Out of the 17 companies he found were egregious in their compensation, 11 have paid back the assistance received from taxpayers.
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July 23, 2010; 11:46 AM ET |
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