According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, Walt Disney Company President and Chief Executive Robert Iger received a total compensation in fiscal 2007 of $27.7 million. He was paid a $2 million base salary, plus a $13.7 million bonus. If that wasn’t enough, he also received $7.9 million in stock awards and $2.2 million in option awards.
I really don’t understand why any person would ever get paid that much money. Sure, he may “run things” — but the people who actually create the Disney products should get paid more, not some executive. Give your animators raises, give the people working at Disneyland raises.
It just seems so wrong that he gets paid that much money to run Disney, while the President of the United States gets paid $400,000 annually. Now, isn’t there something wrong with that picture?
Via Reuters
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