CEO pay packages across the S&P 500 rose nearly 11% in 2025 compared with 2024 – and media and entertainment led all sectors with an eye-opening 117% surge. That was one of the key findings in an analysis released Monday by proxy advisory firm ISS-Corporate. The influential firm examined executive compensation packages related to the […]

Comcast co-CEOs Brian Roberts and Mike Cavanagh had packages worth, respectively, $35.1 million and $71.8 million for 2025. Cavanagh, who was president of Comcast last year and rose to co-CEO in January, saw his package jump sharply from $28 million the year before on a big stock grant. The comp included a base salary of […]

Recently departed Paramount President Jeff Shell had a 2025 package worth $60.7 million, according to an SEC filing Friday. Shell compensation was mostly $1.4 million in base salary and $58.7 million in stock awards. CEO David Ellison’s comp totaled $63.2 million. Ellison’s Skydance Media acquired control of Paramount last August. His package included the same […]

Ari Emanuel, executive chair and CEO of UFC and WWE parent TKO Group saw 2025 compensation of $67.4 million, up sharply from $18.1 million the year before on a large stock grant. The breakdown, according to the company’s proxy statement filed with the SEC today, is $3 million in salary; a cash bonus of about […]