Four Indian-Americans among top 200 highest paid CEOs in the US
WASHINGTON: Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is the fourth highest paid CEO in the US, according to a top-200 list published by The New York Times on Saturday.
There are three other Indian Americans on the list — Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi, Adobe’s Shatanu Narayen and Mastercard’s Ajay Banga, who also heads the US-India business council.
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NOOYI WAS NEXT AMONG INDIAN AMERICAN CEOS, RANKED 81, WITH A TOTAL COMPENSATION OF $19 MILLION, BEATING INDUSTRY RIVAL COCA COLA’S CEO MUHTAR KENT, WHO TOTTED UP $18.1 MILLION.
David Zaslav was the highest paid at $156.1million, said Equilar, a firm that tracks executive compensation and which provided data for the NYT list. Zaslav is now the highest paid CEO since Tim Cook of Apple received $376 million in 2011, who, inexplicably, didn’t figure in the 2014 list.
Nadella came in fourth with total compensation — salary, bonus, stocks, options — at $84 million in 2014, the year he took charge of the company from Steve Ballmer.
Nooyi was next among Indian American CEOs, ranked 81, with a total compensation of $19 million, beating industry rival Coca Cola’s CEO Muhtar Kent, who totted up $18.1 million.
Adobe’s Narayen ranked 96 with $17.8 million and Banga was 178 with $13.4 million.
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer was the highest paid woman CEO with $ 43 million.
Equilar said the survey covered companies with at least $1 billion market cap.