Top Executives Salaries 2010

Source: New York Times

Top 200 executives from 2009 – 2010 saw their salaries increase 23%. The average American employee saw their salary increase only 1% during the same period.

$10.8 million – median pay for the top 200 executives in 2010

$7.7 million – median executive pay package in 2009

38- percent increase in cash bonuses from 2009 – 2010

$84.5 million – pay package for 9 moonths of work by Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman

$76.1 million – pay package in 2010 for Occidental Petroleum CEO Ray R. Irani

$56.9 million – salary in 2010 for CBS’ Leslie Moonves

29.2 – percent increase in profits for American businesses in the fourth quarter of 2010