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The 10 highest-paid CEOs for 2008 at Standard & Poor’s 500 companies based on calculations by The Associated Press. The analysis includes companies that filed proxy statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission between Jan. 1 and April 20. The total pay figures are rounded and are based on the AP’s compensation formula, which adds up salary, perks, bonuses, preferential interest rates on pay set aside for later, and company estimates for the value of stock options and stock awards on the day they were granted last year. -Nick Sabloff, HuffingtonPost.com
- Aubrey McClendon, Chesapeake Energy Corp., $112.5 million
- Sanjay Jha, Motorola Inc., $104.4 million
- Robert Iger, Walt Disney Co., $51.1 million
- Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., $42.9 million
- Kenneth Chenault, American Express Co., $42.9 million
- Vikram Pandit, Citigroup Inc., $38.2 million
- Steven Farris, Apache Corp., $37.2 million
- Louis Camilleri, Philip Morris International Inc., $36.9 million
- Kevin Johnson, Juniper Networks Inc., $36.1 million
- Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co., $35.7 million
Source: The Huffington Post
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