Leslie Moonves

2009

In 2009, Leslie Moonves earned a total compensation of $43.2M as President and Chief Executive Officer at CBS, a 104% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Bonus$15,000,000
Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$263,359
Option Awards$14,339,265
Salary$3,513,462
Stock Awards$7,599,997
Other$2,522,792
Total$43,238,875

Moonves received $15M in bonus, accounting for 35% of the total pay in 2009.

Moonves also received $263.4K of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $14.3M in option awards, $3.5M in salary, $7.6M in stock awards and $2.5M in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2009, Leslie Moonves' compensation ranked 8th out of 9,885 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Moonves earned more than 99.9% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
8
out of 9,885
100th
Division
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
2
out of 872
100th
Major group
Communications
2
out of 256
99th
Industry group
Radio And Television Broadcasting Stations
2
out of 63
97th
Industry
Television Broadcasting Stations
1
out of 31
97th
Source: SEC filing on April 16, 2010.

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2009

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CBS

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2009

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CBS

Chief Financial Officer

2009

Martin Franks

CBS

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