Spreadsheet
Ranking the media moguls
This table shows how much top media-industry executives were paid in fiscal 2010, as well as each company’s revenue in that year. The executives are ranked by total pay, which consists of cash pay (including salary and bonus), stock and stock options, and other pay, which can include deferred compensation and other perks. The figures do not include deferred compensation cashed out last year or profit from stock options exercised in the year because those are considered to be pay from previous years.
| Executive | Company | Title | Cash pay (millions) | Value of stock and options received (millions) | Other pay (millions) | Total pay (millions) | Change from prior year (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philippe P. Dauman | Viacom* | Chief Executive | $13.90 | $70.50 | $0.20 | $84.50 | +149% |
| Thomas E. Dooley | Viacom* | Chief Operating Officer | $10.80 | $53.80 | $0.10 | $64.70 | +139% |
| Leslie Moonves | CBS | Chief Executive | $31.00 | $22.90 | $3.80 | $57.70 | +34% |
| David M. Zaslav | Discovery Communications | Chief Executive | $6.40 | $35.70 | $0.40 | $42.60 | +265% |
| Sumner M. Redstone | CBS & Viacom* | Executive Chairman | $18.60 | $16.60 | $0.20 | $35.30 | +7% |
| Stephen B. Burke | Comcast | Exec. VP; NBCUniversal CEO | $14.00 | $14.90 | $5.90 | $34.70 | +2% |
| Michael D. White | DirecTV | Chairman, CEO | $5.40 | $27.20 | $0.30 | $32.90 | N/A |
| Brian L. Roberts | Comcast | Chairman, CEO | $13.70 | $11.20 | $6.10 | $31.10 | +14% |
| Robert A. Iger | Walt Disney | Chief Executive | $15.50 | $11.80 | $2.40 | $29.60 | +24% |
| Thomas M. Rutledge | Cablevision Systems | Chief Operating Officer | $10.50 | $13.80 | $3.90 | $28.20 | +8% |
| Jeffrey L. Bewkes | Time Warner | Chairman, CEO | $16.40 | $9.60 | $0.30 | $26.30 | +34% |
| Chase Carey | News Corp. | Chief Operating Officer | $23.10 | $0.00 | $2.90 | $26.00 | N/A |
| Irving L. Azoff | Live Nation Entertainment | Chairman | $6.90 | $2.10 | $13.80 | $22.80 | N/A |
| K. Rupert Murdoch | News Corp. | Chairman, CEO | $12.50 | $4.10 | $6.20 | $22.70 | +2% |
| Glenn A. Britt | Time Warner Cable | Chairman, CEO | $9.60 | $7.40 | $0.40 | $17.40 | +9% |
| Michael Rapino | Live Nation Entertainment | Chief Executive | $8.80 | $7.00 | $0.10 | $15.90 | +138% |
| Charles F. Dolan | Cablevision Systems | Chairman | $10.00 | $3.00 | $0.70 | $13.80 | -14% |
| James L. Dolan | Cablevision Systems | Chief Executive | $10.10 | $2.80 | $0.50 | $13.40 | -22% |
| Thomas O. Staggs | Walt Disney | Chairman, Parks & Resorts | $5.00 | $4.50 | $0.70 | $10.20 | +17% |
| John S. Riccitiello | Electronic Arts | Chief Executive | $1.50 | $8.30 | $0.00 | $9.80 | +119% |
| John S. Hendricks | Discovery Communications | Chairman | $1.60 | $7.70 | $0.30 | $9.50 | -45% |
| Michael R. Burns | Lions Gate Entertainment | Vice Chairman | $2.40 | $4.50 | $0.00 | $6.90 | +138% |
| Jeffrey Katzenberg | DreamWorks Animation | Chief Executive | $0.00 | $6.70 | $0.00 | $6.70 | -71% |
| Gregory B. Maffei | Liberty Media | Chief Executive | $5.80 | $0.00 | $0.60 | $6.40 | -93% |
| Robert A. Kotick | Activision Blizzard | Chief Executive | $3.20 | $1.90 | $0.50 | $5.60 | +78% |
| Reed Hastings | Netflix | Chairman, CEO | $0.50 | $5.00 | $0.00 | $5.50 | +100% |
| Barry Diller | IAC | Chairman, Sr. Executive | $3.00 | $0.00 | $0.70 | $3.70 | +15% |
| Jon Feltheimer | Lions Gate Entertainment | Co-Chairman, CEO | $3.20 | $0.40 | $0.10 | $3.60 | -53% |
| John C. Malone | Liberty Media | Chairman | $0.00 | $0.00 | $1.50 | $1.50 | +4% |
| Charles W. Ergen | Dish Network | Chairman, CEO | $0.60 | $0.00 | $0.20 | $0.80 | -20% |