Liberty Media CEO Gregory Maffei
Title: Executive VP and General Counsel
Company: Liberty Media (
LINTA)
CEO: Gregory B. Maffei, $6.4 million
Pay difference: $12.4 million
Tanabe is a mergers and acquisitions specialist who rose to his current position in 2007. While he earned a base salary of just $875,500, option awards worth $16.5 million pushed his compensation package well past that of CEO Gregory Maffei, who pulled in $6.4 million in total.
Maffei doesn't have much reason to complain, of course, particularly given the fact that he made more than $87 million in 2009.
--J.O.Source:
Equilar, Inc.NEXT: Per G.H. Lofberg, $15.6 million