David Zaslav noticed his complete compensation package deal final yr bounce by greater than $10 million to $49.7 million in 2023 — with Warner Bros. Discovery awarding him a base wage of $3 million, plus $23 million in inventory awards, and non-equity incentive plan compensation (a money bonus) of $22 million.
It’s the second reasonably princely CEO package deal in as many days in an business recognized for them as Netflix yesterday unveiled a equally sized package deal co-CEO Ted Sarandos.
Zaslav, nonetheless, has for years been the poster baby of excessive CEO pay, with a tough to swallow 2021 package deal of practically $247 million, swelled by $203 million value of choice awards. That quantity — and the others — had been plastered on posters final spring because the writers guild’ labor talks acquired heated and CEO pay turned a rallying cry.
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