Top 50 highest-paid CEOs in 2010

[The Straight Story]

The 50 highest-paid CEOs for 2010 in an Associated Press analysis for Standard & Poor's 500 companies. The analysis includes companies that had the same CEO for all of 2009 and 2010 and that filed proxy statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission between Jan. 1 and April 30. They are based on the AP's compensation formula, which adds up salary, perks, bonuses, preferential interest rates on pay set aside for later, and company estimates for the value of stock options and stock awards on the day they were granted last year.

Philippe Dauman, Viacom, $84.5 million, up 149 percent

Ray Irani, Occidental Petroleum, $76.1 million, up 142 percent

Leslie Moonves, CBS, $56.9 million, up 32 percent

David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $42.6 million, up 265 percent

Richard Adkerson, Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold, $35.3 million, up 76 percent

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Top-50-highestpaid-CEOs-in-apf-2001896869.html

[RC]

1. Companies that can afford to pay their CEO's that much are charging too much for their

products/services.

And most, if not all these companies get government subsidies and/or don't pay income tax in this country?

I'm seeing a problem here.

[snappyturtle]

2. +1 Big,Big problem.....for us lesser sorts. nt