W. Erik Carlson

2018

In 2018, W. Erik Carlson earned a total compensation of $5.3M as President and Chief Executive Officer at Dish Network, a 249% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Non-Equity Incentive Plan$125,000
Option Awards$4,188,897
Salary$1,000,000
Other$7,020
Total$5,320,917

Carlson received $4.2M in option awards, accounting for 79% of the total pay in 2018.

Carlson also received $125K in non-equity incentive plan, $1M in salary and $7K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2018, W. Erik Carlson's compensation ranked 1,852nd out of 14,244 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Carlson earned more than 87.0% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
1,852
out of 14,244
87th
Division
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
182
out of 918
80th
Major group
Communications
74
out of 273
73rd
Industry group
Cable And Other Pay Television Services
40
out of 81
51st
Industry
Cable and Other Pay Television Services
40
out of 81
51st

Pay ratio

W. Erik Carlson's Pay$5,320,917
Median Employee's Pay$54,048
Pay Ratio

98

to 1

In 2018, the annual total compensation of W. Erik Carlson was $5,320,917.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Dish Network was $54,048.

The ratio of W. Erik Carlson's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 98 to one.

Source: SEC filing on March 19, 2019.

Carlson's colleagues

We found five more compensation records of executives who worked with W. Erik Carlson at Dish Network in 2018.

2018

Thomas Cullen

Dish Network

Executive Vice President, Corporate Development

2018

Charles Ergen

Dish Network

Chairman

2018

John Swieringa

Dish Network

Chief Operating Officer

2018

Paul Orban

Dish Network

Chief Accounting Officer

2018

Steven Swain

Dish Network

Chief Financial Officer

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