Where Does Bob Iger’s Salary Rank Among Media Execs?
Corporate executive pay is a topic that has come up a lot in recent years.
Years ago, few media sites paid attention to CEO salaries for an obvious reason. Those CEOs were their bosses.
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Nowadays, non-affiliated third parties happily report on anything topical.
The end result is akin to putting some of the most famous leaders in the world under a microscope.
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A few months ago, we discussed the salaries of three Disney executives.
Now, we know how they stack up against other titans of media.
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So, where does Bob Iger’s pay rank among Hollywood executives?
Salaries for Disney Executives
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First, let’s talk about timeliness. We can only do this now because we needed to wait until all executive’s earnings were official.
Corporations perform government filings as a form of transparency.
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Some don’t have their fiscal years end until after the first quarter of the new year.
We already knew the salaries of Disney’s three most recognizable executives, though.
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As Justin Hermes previously reported, Bob Iger earned roughly $31.6 million, which isn’t one of the best annual salaries.
Then again, some would argue that Iger didn’t have his best year, either. I’m not one of them, but I’ll mention it anyway.
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Former Disney CFO Christine McCarthy had a strong year even though she left Disney before finishing 2023.
McCarthy’s yearly total of $18.1 million nearly matched her 2022 total of $20.2 million.
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Finally, Disney was still paying former CEO Bob Chapek for his past transgressions…err, job duties.
Chapek cost Disney another $9.9 million. On the one hand, that’s a huge cut from 2022’s $24.2 million.
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On the other hand, that’s $34 million Disney might as well have lit on fire.
For his part, Iger’s earnings doubled his 2022 take of $15 million, but that’s still closer than you’d think.
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As a reminder, Iger didn’t even work for Disney that year until November 20th. It’s a good job if you can get it.
How Disney Salaries Rank with Other Hollywood Execs
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The idea of a Hollywood/media executive isn’t as cut-and-dried as it once was.
For example, should Amazon CEO Andy Jassy count? Amazon owns and operates a film studio and a streaming service.
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What would you say about Apple CEO Tim Cook? Apple’s running the Ted Lasso Channel, which is allegedly a streaming service, too.
For our purposes, we will count a lot of CEOs. You can whittle out the ones you feel shouldn’t be included.
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So, here’s the list of CEOs and their 2023 pay:
- Adam Aron, AMC Theatres — $25.4 million
- Bob Bakish, Paramount (recently fired) — $31.3 million
- Mike Cavanagh, Comcast — $29.6 million
- Kristin Dolan, AMC Networks — $14.6 million
- Jon Feltheimer, Lionsgate — $21.5 million
- Sean Gamble, Cinemark — $8.8 million
- Reed Hastings, Netflix (mostly retired) — $11.2 million
- Lachlan Murdoch, Fox Corporation — $21.8 million
- Rupert Murdoch, Fox Corporation (retired) — $22.9 million
- Greg Peters, Netflix — $40.1 million
- Brian L. Roberts, Comcast — $35.4 million
- Ted Sarandos, Netflix — $49.8 million
- Chris Winfrey, Charter — $89.1 million
- David Zaslav, Warner. Bros Discovery — $49.7 million
Thoughts on These Salaries
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By my count, 15 executives listed here hold the title of either President or CEO.
Among them, Iger’s $31.6 million was sixth of the 15 executives.
Disney’s CEO fell a bit shy of Roberts and Peters, but his salary was only 63.6 percent of Zaslav’s despite having a MUCH better year.
Iger fell in the same range as Ted Sarandos as well, but the latter individual had a stellar 2023 campaign, solidifying Netflix’s streaming dominance.
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Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty via The Hollywood Reporter
Finally, the outlier here is Charter’s Winfrey, who received more than double Iger’s pay.
That’s noteworthy since Iger vastly outplayed him during the Charter/Disney standoff. So, who’s really overpaid here?
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Okay, the answer’s all of them, but you get my point. Iger’s salary is much more defensible than many of these.
As for McCarthy and Chapek, well…in the immortal words of Eleanor Shellstrop, pobody’s nerfect.
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