WBD - Top 10 Highest Paid CEOs In 2023: Elon Musk Nowhere To Be Found Where Tim Cook Ted Sarandos Rank | Benzinga
Senator Bernie Sanders may want to look away from a new report that highlights 2023’s highest-paid CEOs of S&P 500 companies.
The Vermont senator is working to pass legislation that would increase taxes on companies that pay their CEOs 50 times more than the pay of their median worker.
What Happened: The latest list of highest-paid S&P 500 CEOs includes several top names in the technology sector as well as a CEO that has drawn increased scrutiny for high pay as his company conducted multiple layoffs.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the top ten highest-paid CEOs of S&P 500 companies in 2023, including equity awards and cash pay are:
- Hock Tan, Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO), $161.8 million, +167% year-over-year
- Nikesh Arora, Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW), $151.4 million, +1,355%
- Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone (NYSE:BX), $119.8 million, -52.7%
- Christopher Winfrey, Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR), $89.1 million, +470%
- Will Lansing, Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FICO), $64.3 million, +251%
- Tim Cook, Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), $63.2 million, -36.4%
- Hamid Moghadam, Prologics (NYSE:PLD), $50.9 million, +5.7%
- Ted Sarandos, Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX), $50.0 million, -0.9%
- David Zaslav, Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD), $49.7 million, +26.5%
- Glenn Fogel, Booking Holdings ...