The Region's Highest-Paid Executives
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Pay for the Washington area's top executives rose significantly last year, reversing the downward trend that set in with the recession in 2001.
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The multimillion-dollar compensation  package of former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard  Grasso was calculated in part using an average of the  compensation of some of the most highly compensated chief  executives in the United States.
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By Richard Read, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 4--Sixteen executives of a company you've never heard of flew 6,500  miles recently to Portland, eager to sell you a television.   The top managers of China's TCL Corp.
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LARRY Ellison, the chief executive of software maker Oracle, earned $US3.85 million ($5.53 million) in salary and bonus for the financial year that ended May 31.
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U.S. executives are reaping another  year of abundant pay, and the rich rewards are likely to stir  demands for greater disclosure on how and why heads of  companies are compensated.
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A new study of CEO pay and compensation shows that the gap between bosses and workers is widening.
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The role of the executive assistant has drawn scrutiny after the disclosure that the former New York Stock Exchange chairman's assistant was paid $240,000 a year.
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Pay increases for Britain's top bosses has risen, a survey by the consultancy firm Deloitte finds.
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Most senior executives at large U.S. companies plan to increase hiring and investments over the next 12 months amid growing optimism about the economy, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers released on Thursday.
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One of the most successful business leaders in the North-East has won a prize in the Quoted Company Awards in London.
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 8--Business confidence ticked upward in the latest Bay Area Council survey of top executives, as optimists outnumbered pessimists by nearly three to one in the region -- and by more than four to one in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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In executive compensation at least, where America leads, the UK follows. That's why it should come as no surprise that the total earnings of chief executives at British blue-chip companies have doubled over the past five years. For Americans, the surprise may be that average annual compensation for chief executives of FTSE 100 companies is so low: a mere &pound;3.17m, according to the latest report from Incomes Data Services, a UK research group. Compare the $48m earned last year by Stan O'Neal of Merrill Lynch.
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Salaries for top executives at U.S.   nonprofits including hospitals and universities grew at a   steady clip last year with some leaders taking home more than   $1 million, according to a survey released on Monday.
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A career executive in the federal government, earning the maximum salary allowed by law, draws an hourly wage of $80.50.
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(InfoWorld) - Technology executives dominated the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of 400 richest Americans this year with Microsoft Co-Founder and Chairman Bill Gates retaining his place at the top of the annual list for the 14th time. According to Forbes, Gates is worth $59 billion. In all, five of the top 10 are technology executives. Larry Ellison from Oracle and Michael Dell from Dell were No. 4 and No. 8, respectively. Oracle's chairman is worth $26 billion, according to Forbes, while Dell's net worth is $17.2 billion. Breaking the top 10 for the first time were Google wunderkinds Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who also were among the youngest of the top 400 richest Americans. Both Google co-founders and co-presidents are 34 and shared the No. 5 spot with a net worth of $18.5 million; only the 317th richest American John Arnold, a hedge-fund billionaire in Houston, is younger than Brin and Page. Google's Page also caught up to Brin's bank account in 2007. Last year, Brin held the No. 12 spot at $14.1 billion in net worth, while Page was a hair behind at No. 13 with $14 billion. Number two on the list was Gates's friend Warren Buffett of Omaha, Nebraska-based holding company Berkshire Hathaway, who has pledged a significant amount of his wealth to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Forbes said that Buffet is worth $52 billion. While Sheldon Adelson, with a net worth of $28 billion, no doubt owes his number-three spot to his Las Vegas casino and hotel holdings, he's a familiar name to tech veterans as the impresario once behind the now-defunct Comdex mega-tradeshow. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen slipped from his position at No. 5 last year to No. 11 this year, just missing the top 10. Allen is worth $16.8 million, according to Forbes. Current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, worth $15.2 billion, also fell from 15th last year to 16th this year. Other high-tech executives who made a strong showing on the list in 2007 are eBay's founder and Chairman Pierre Omidyar, who came in 32nd with a net worth of $8.9 billion; Amazon.com founder, Chairman, CEO and President Jeff Bezos, who is worth $8.7 billion and tied with another high-tech billionaire, SAS Institute's James Goodnight, for 35th; and Google's CEO Eric Schmidt, who came in 48th and is worth $6.5 billion.
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Company executives are putting their money where their mouths are.
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Our coast-to-coast look at the areas of the country that boast the priciest real estate and the richest residents.