• Judge blasts bankrupt Hertz’s ‘offensive’ plan to pay big bonuses

    Judge blasts bankrupt Hertz’s ‘offensive’ plan to pay big bonuses

    A federal judge blasted bankrupt car-rental firm Hertz’s proposal to pay top executives millions of dollars in bonuses as she shot down the plan Thursday. US Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath directed the beleaguered company to revise its “offensive” proposal offering up to $14.6 million in bonuses to Hertz employees, including $5.4 million for senior executives. …
  • American CEOs got a 14 percent pay raise last year, study finds

    American CEOs got a 14 percent pay raise last year, study finds

    America’s leading CEOs got paid 14 percent more on average in 2019 — and their paychecks could grow again this year even amid the coronavirus pandemic, researchers say. The chief executives at the top 350 US companies by sales raked in an average of $21.3 million last year, up from about $18.7 million in 2018, …
  • Feds blast lavish bonuses for bankrupt Neiman Marcus’ execs

    Feds blast lavish bonuses for bankrupt Neiman Marcus’ execs

    The federal government is cracking down on fat bonuses for top executives of Neiman Marcus after The Post reported on the bankrupt chain’s controversial efforts to enrich its CEO. Henry Hobbs, the acting US Trustee overseeing Neiman’s Dallas, Tex., bankruptcy, blasted $10 million in bonuses Neiman has set aside for its senior staff, including CEO Geoffroy …
  • Elon Musk earns performance-based Tesla payout worth $775M

    Elon Musk earns performance-based Tesla payout worth $775M

    Elon Musk is officially in the money. The Tesla CEO on Thursday became eligible to cash in on a controversial payday which could see him pocket more than $700 million. The electric automaker said in a filing that its board had certified the operational milestone needed to unlock the first award in Musk’s eye-popping $50 …
  • SoftBank Vision Fund head Rajeev Misra’s pay doubled in 2019 amid company losses

    SoftBank Vision Fund head Rajeev Misra’s pay doubled in 2019 amid company losses

    SoftBank Vision Fund’s head, Rajeev Misra, saw his total pay for the past business year more than double to 1.6 billion yen ($14.8 million), even as the fund’s underperformance pushed SoftBank to a record $13 billion operating loss. The figure was second only to remuneration for SoftBank Group Chief Operating Officer Marcelo Claure, which rose …
  • Companies protect CEO compensation as workers suffer furloughs, layoffs

    Companies protect CEO compensation as workers suffer furloughs, layoffs

    Sonic Automotive, which operates 95 US car dealerships, started laying off and furloughing about a third of its workforce as the coronavirus pandemic crushed its sales. Then, it changed its executives’ pay packages — handing them a multimillion-dollar windfall. On April 10, Sonic’s board gave its top executives stock options to replace performance-based share awards, …
  • Coronavirus to shrink Wall Street bonuses as much as 30 percent

    Coronavirus to shrink Wall Street bonuses as much as 30 percent

    Wall Street bonuses for 2020 could fall by as much as 25 percent to 30 percent due to the deep cuts to revenues recorded by banks and hedge funds earlier this year as a result of the novel coronavirus, according to a report published Wednesday by compensation consulting firm Johnson Associates. While most compensation is …
  • NBCUniversal cuts executive pay after Andy Lack’s surprise ouster

    NBCUniversal cuts executive pay after Andy Lack’s surprise ouster

    NBCUniversal is slashing salaries because of the coronavirus, a day after the broadcasting giant’s surprise ouster of NBC News chairman Andy Lack. In response to the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, NBCU is cutting the pay of its senior management by 20 percent and rolling back pay increases for employees making more than $100,000, …
  • Tesla stock rise triggers $700 million payday for Elon Musk

    Tesla stock rise triggers $700 million payday for Elon Musk

    Tesla’s meteoric stock growth on Monday qualified CEO Elon Musk for a $700 million payday, just three days after he tweeted that the share price was “too high.” The electric automaker’s 8 percent spike on Monday brought the company’s stock market value to an average of more than $100 billion over the past six months, …
  • Goldman Sachs votes to pay CEO David Solomon $24.7M

    Goldman Sachs votes to pay CEO David Solomon $24.7M

    Goldman Sachs shareholders approved CEO David Solomon’s $24.7 million pay day on Thursday despite calls for it to be voted down in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Seventy-one percent of shareholders OK’d the 2019 compensation package, down from 91 percent the year earlier, Goldman announced at its annual shareholder meeting. The 58-year-old chief executive’s pay …