Comcast Executive Vice President Stephen Burke
Title: Formerly COO; now Executive VP, Comcast and CEO, NBCUniversal
CEO: Brian L. Roberts, $28.2 million
Pay difference: $3.1 million
Burke took over as head of NBCUniversal in January 2011, overseeing the company's theme parks, TV stations and film production.
Prior to that, he was the firm's COO and president of Comcast Cable, having signed a new contract in December of 2009. With that agreement came a cash bonus of $3 million for 2010, pushing his compensation total past that of Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.
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