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Media chiefs are among the nation’s highest-paid CEOs, and as a whole, they earn on average $10 million more than their counterparts in other industries, according to a study conducted by The New York Times.
According to the Times report, citing Equilar data, seven of the 20 top-paid chief executives are employed by media conglomerates.
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They are: CBS’ Leslie Moonves ($60.2 million), Discovery Communications’ David Zaslav ($49.9 million), Disney’s Robert Iger ($37.1 million), Viacom’s Philippe Dauman ($33.4 million), Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes ($25.7 million), Comcast’s Brian Roberts ($25.1 million) and News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch ($22.4 million).
Moonves came in at No. 3 on the list of highest-paid executives last year, behind Oracle’s Larry Ellison ($96.2 million) and Activision Blizzard’s Robert Kotich ($64.9 million).
However, when taken as a whole, media company chiefs earned an average pay of about $30 million, which was about $6 million more than their counterparts in technology and $12 million more than consumer goods company chiefs.
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Overall, median pay for the top 20 media executives rose 10 percent last year, according to the Times.
In comparison, JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon took home $11.5 million, while Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman earned $9.75 million.
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