Each spring, many large firms report CEO pay that often tops $10 million, and how they’ve designed their compensation plans to align with company profits and shareholders’ fortunes.
In their filings with federal regulators, these companies also disclose details behind those pay plans – how much stock, stock options, “performance” shares and other esoteric holdings they’ve awarded to their top executives.
What they don’t tell you is the bottom line: how wealthy those complex pay plans have made their CEOs, and how quickly.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has done that homework for you, examining CEOs’ accumulated wealth at eight of Georgia’s largest and highest-paying corporations.
Bottom line: those CEOs’ wealth typically is well above $100 million after growing several times faster than their shareholders’ returns since the end of 2009. One has more than $400 million worth of company stock, options, pensions and other company-related wealth.
Read the whole story in Sunday's AJC or on myajc.com.
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