15 execs who make more than their CEOs

Sure, corporate chiefs' pay often is eye-poppingly high. But at some companies, executives lower down the ladder quietly out-earned their CEO bosses.

Omar M. Asali, $20.5 million

phillip falcone
Harbinger CEO Philip Falcone
  • Title: President
  • Company: Harbinger Group
  • CEO: Philip A. Falcone
  • Pay difference: $20.5 million

It's pretty easy to out-earn a CEO who only took home $50K last year. Granted, that's $50,000 more than Falcone made the previous two years. And that $50,000 was only for transportation reimbursements.

Asali, who plays a heavy role in the company's daily activities and mergers and acquisitions, brought home a salary of $500,000 in 2013. He also received stock and options awards totaling just under $12 million. The icing on the cake: He also got an $8 million bonus. --K.V.

Source: Equilar
Pay data based on company's fiscal year end of September 2013.
  @CNNMoney - Last updated December 18 2014 09:12 AM ET

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