Roger Ailes

2012

In 2012, Roger Ailes earned a total compensation of $21.1M as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FOX News Channel and FOX Business Network and Chairman of Fox Television Stations and Twentieth Television at Twenty-First Century Fox, a 35% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Bonus$1,500,000
Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$1,187,000
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$9,000,000
Salary$5,000,000
Stock Awards$4,057,500
Other$317,655
Total$21,062,155

Ailes received $9M in non-equity incentive plan, accounting for 43% of the total pay in 2012.

Ailes also received $1.5M in bonus, $1.2M of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $5M in salary, $4.1M in stock awards and $317.7K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2012, Roger Ailes' compensation ranked 83rd out of 11,487 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Ailes earned more than 99.3% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
83
out of 11,487
99th
Division
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
12
out of 916
99th
Major group
Communications
9
out of 268
97th
Industry group
Cable And Other Pay Television Services
6
out of 58
90th
Industry
Cable and Other Pay Television Services
6
out of 58
90th
Source: SEC filing on September 4, 2012.

Ailes' colleagues

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2012

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2012

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2012

James Murdoch

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Chief Operating Officer

2012

David DeVoe

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Chief Financial Officer

2012

Gerson Zweifach

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