William Bill Wells

Overview 2009 2008

2009

In 2009, William Bill Wells earned a total compensation of $3.7M as Chief Executive Officer and President, BLS at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, a 15% decrease compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Non-Equity Incentive Plan	$1,289,484
Option Awards	$102,421
Salary	$860,085
Stock Awards	$1,329,531
Other	$107,686
Total	$3,689,207

Wells received $1.3M in stock awards, accounting for 36% of the total pay in 2009.

Wells also received $1.3M in non-equity incentive plan, $102.4K in option awards, $860.1K in salary and $107.7K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2009, William Bill Wells' compensation ranked 1,166th out of 9,885 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Wells earned more than 88.2% of executives.

Classification	Ranking	Percentile
All	1,166 out of 9,885	88th
Division Manufacturing	409 out of 3,690	89th
Major group Chemicals And Allied Products	87 out of 871	90th
Industry group Drugs	58 out of 643	91st
Industry Pharmaceutical Preparations	51 out of 446	89th

Source: SEC filing on April 21, 2010.

Overview 2008

Wells' colleagues

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