“The New York Times recently published its coverage of the Equilar 200 Highest-Paid CEO Rankings, an analysis of the top paid CEOs at public U.S. companies with at least $1 billion in fiscal year-end market cap. Over the past nine years, Equilar has collaborated with The Times as the preferred data provider of executive compensation and corporate governance information. Equilar delivers key information on compensation, professional history, and wealth events for top executives of publicly traded companies.

Key Findings – chart with names, photos, total compensation:

1. Discovery Communications’ CEO David Zaslav was the highest paid at $156.1million, making him the highest paid CEO since Tim Cook of Apple received $376 million in 2011.
2. Michael Fries of Liberty Global and Mario Gabelli of GAMCO Investors sit second and third on the list with $111.9 million and $88.5 million, respectively.
3. Among the top CEOs, the highest paid woman was Marissa Mayer of Yahoo at $42.1 million sitting at 14th on the list.
4. Median pay for the 200 CEOs was $17.6 million, a growth of 1.9% over last year’s study.
5. Out of the top 10 CEOs, four of the executives are at technology companies….”