CEO pay is determined by a company’s board of directors. Those directors are compensated for the time they spend shaping the company’s strategy. Here’s what the Fortune 100 executives paid each other from 2008 to 2012.
From January 2008 to May 2011, if you bought shares in companies when William H.T. Bush joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -9.0 percent return on your investment, compared to a -9.5 percent return from the S&P 500.
Nov. 1, 2004 to May 17, 2011
Other board members at WellPoint during this time were Donald W. Riegle, Jr., George A. Schaefer, Jr., Jacquelyn Ward and 12 more.
The Pay Pals project relies on financial research conducted by the Center for Economic Policy and Research.
Sources: Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, WellPoint SEC filings (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011).
By Shane Shifflett, Jay Boice, Hilary Fung and Aaron Bycoffe