Executive pay for health care CEOs. Obscene: I wonder what the total of the executive suite gets paid for each company.
Here are the top 20 earners in the health care field, from the AP and Equilar, which analyzed CEO pay at hundreds of companies on the S&P 500:
- Leonard S. Schleifer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, $47,462,526
- Jeffrey M. Leiden, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, $28,099,826
- Larry J. Merlo, CVS Health, $22,855,374
- Robert J. Hugin, Celgene, $22,472,912
- Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson, $21,128,866
- Michael F. Neidorff, Centene, $20,755,103
- Alan B. Miller, Universal Health Services, $20,427,309
- Kenneth C. Frazier, Merck & Co., $19,898,438
- Miles D. White, Abbott Laboratories, $19,410,704
- John C. Martin, Gilead Sciences, $18,755,952
- Richard A. Gonzalez, AbbVie, $18,534,310
- Heather Bresch, Mylan, $18,162,852
- David M. Cordani, Cigna, $17,307,672
- Mark T. Bertolini, Aetna, $17,260,806
- George A. Scangos, Biogen, $16,874,386
- Robert L. Parkinson, Baxter International, $16,648,750
- John C. Lechleiter, Eli Lilly & Co, $16,562,500
- Marc N. Casper, Thermo Fisher Scientific, $16,307,079
- Robert A. Bradway, Amgen, $16,097,714
- George Paz, Express Scripts Holding, $14,835,587
Total CEO compensation includes salary, bonus, stock and stock option awards, and other perks.
