Packages featured a mix of cash and equity awards.
See list of CEOs and their pay below.
Hastings segued to executive chairman early this year with Sarandos and Greg Peters now co-CEOs.
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Netflix has famously allowed executives to choose how they want to be paid, in cash or stock.
Sarandos has tended to take cash, and saw a $20 million base salary.
(Hastings took almost all of his pay last year in stock options as he usually does.)
Guild members were circulating this image of CEO 2021 pay.
Netflix was the first to wave a big red flag that ushered in a year of industry upheaval.
Netflix shares ended last year down 50% .
Nudged by shareholders, the company said it has reexamined its pay policies starting this year.
Nexstar CEO Perry Sook is no.
3, with pay rising 86% to $39 million.
Paramount Globals CEO Bob Bakish saw a 60% pay increase to $32 million.
The stock fell 45% last year.
The company has been thinning out its executive ranks and restructuring, including folding Showtime into Paramount+.
Comp in 2021 was skewed byWarner Bros.Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Endeavor chief Ari Emanuel.
His pay fell to $39 million last year.
For 2021, Emanuel received a restricted stock grant valued at $293 million related to the companys IPO.
His pay was $19 million for 2022.
In both cases, the 2021 equity awards were tied to performance.
Those with fiscal years ending in September, likeDisney, or in June, like Fox, filed earlier.
Proxies include the compensation of a companys top five highest paid executives.
Bob Chapek was CEO of Disney for the companys entire FY 2022.
His pay dipped to $24 million from $32 million the year before.
Disneys fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 to September 30.
His new package as CEO is worth about $27 million for each year of his two-year term.
Disney has taken heat from shareholders in the past on Igers pay.
He had a $46-million package in FY 2021.
The company is in the process of cutting $5 billion in costs and laying off 7,000 staffers.
Spade, the most recent, left AMC in November after three months in the role.
Kristin Dolan, his wife, was named CEO in February.
Paramount Global has been thinning out its executive ranks and restructuring, including folding Showtime into Paramount+.
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch earned $21.7 million.
Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch was paid $18.4 million.
The company just settled a lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems for nearly $800 million.
At the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend, comedian Roy J.
Wood, hit a serious note about newsrooms being gutted.
Companies are cutting people, cutting budgets.
But you never hear about the multimillion-dollar executives reducing their salaries at these organizations.
These are forward facing companies.
They have reputational risk.
WBD has tied some of CEO Zaslavs compensation to free cash flow.
He made the declaration in February, before 2022 pay was reported on Friday.
I do not want more when our shareholders are hurting, he tweeted then.
