The 15 Highest Paid Ceos Of 2014

Interestingly, only one of the top 15 is a woman, and that is, unsurprisingly, Yahoo!’s Marisa Mayer. In fact, of the top 200 highest paid CEOs, only 12 are women. After Mayer, the next woman is Carol Mevrowitz of TJX. She comes in at #54. Other women making the top 200 include Hewlett-Packard’s Meg Whitman, PepsiCo’s Indra K. Nooyi, IBM’s Virgina M. Rometty, and Lockheed Martin’s Marilyn A. Hewson. Not surprisingly, the list is comprised of predominately white males. Let’s take a look at the 15 Highest Paid CEOs and how much they made in 2014:

  1. David Zaslav CEO Discovery Communications Salary: $156.1 million Cash compensation: $11 million Stock and options: $145 million Change in total pay (1 year): +368%
  2. Michael Fries CEO, Liberty Global Salary: $111.9 million Cash compensation: $16 million Stock and options: $95.9 million Change in total pay (1 year): +140%
  3. Mario Gabelli CEO, Gamco Investors Salary: $88.5 million Cash compensation: $88.5 million Change in total pay (1 year): + 4%
  4. Satya Nadella CEO, Microsoft Salary: $84.3 million Cash compensation: $4.5 million Stock and options: $79.8 million
  5. Nick Woodman CEO, GoPro Salary: $77.4 million Cash compensation: $2.7 million Stock and options: $74.7 million Change in total pay (1 year): +4,079%
  6. Gregory Maffei CEO, Liberty Media & Liberty Interactive Salary: $73.8 million Cash compensation: $8.5 million Stock and options: $65.3 million Change in total pay (1 year): +1,077%
  7. Larry Ellison CEO, Oracle Salary: $67.3 million Cash compensation: $2.3 million Stock and options: $65 million Change in total pay (1 year): -14%
  8. Steve Mollenkopf CEO, Qualcomm Salary: $60.7 million Cash compensation: $2.7 million Stock and options: $58 million
  9. David Hamamoto CEO, NorthStar Realty Finance Salary: $60.3 million Cash compensation: $11.6 million Stock and options: $48.7million Change in total pay (1 year): +227%
  10. Les Moonves CEO, CBS Salary, $54.4 million Cash compensation: $29.9 million Stock and options: $24.5 million Change in total pay (1 year): -6%
  11. Philippe P. Dauman CEO, Viacom Salary: $44.3 million Cash compensation: $24.4 million Stock and options: $19.9 million Change in total pay (1 year): +19%
  12. Bob Iger CEO, Walt Disney Salary: $43.7 million Cash compensation: $26.4 million Stock and options: $17.3 million Change in total pay (1 year): +27%
  13. Jay Brown CEO, MBIA Salary: $43.6 million Cash compensation: $8 million Stock and options: $35.6 million Change in total pay (1 year): +730%
  14. Marissa Mayer CEO Yahoo! Salary: $42.1 million Cash compensation: $2.1 million Stock and options: $39.9 million Change in total pay (1 year): +69%
  15. Leonard Schleifer CEO, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Salary: $42 million Cash compensation: $3.3 million Stock and options: $38.6 million Change in total pay (1 year): + 15%