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General News    H4'ed 8/25/12

Pentagon Contractor CEO Compensation is Second to None

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$21.5 million. A lottery winner's prize? The cost of a private plane or yacht? How about the annual compensation of a major defense contractor's Chief Executive Officer? A Project On Government Oversight analysis of executive compensation at the top five Pentagon contractors -- Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman, and Raytheon -- found that the average compensation package of a CEO at one of these firms was approximately $21.5 million last year, according to the firms' Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Total compensation is the sum of base salary, bonuses, stock awards, option awards, incentive compensation, deferred compensation (including changes in pension value), and all other compensation. Given the apocalyptic rhetoric some of these CEOs are using to describe planned reductions in Pentagon spending and their poor track record on job creation...
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