David D. Smith

2018

In 2018, David D. Smith earned a total compensation of $7.4M as Executive Chairman at Sinclair Broadcast Group, a 11% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Non-Equity Incentive Plan$1,912,500
Option Awards$2,200,332
Salary$1,275,000
Stock Awards$2,000,014
Other$11,000
Total$7,398,846

Smith received $2.2M in option awards, accounting for 30% of the total pay in 2018.

Smith also received $1.9M in non-equity incentive plan, $1.3M in salary, $2M in stock awards and $11K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2018, David D. Smith's compensation ranked 1,143rd out of 14,244 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Smith earned more than 92.0% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
1,143
out of 14,244
92nd
Division
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
122
out of 918
87th
Major group
Communications
61
out of 273
78th
Industry group
Radio And Television Broadcasting Stations
13
out of 70
81st
Industry
Television Broadcasting Stations
7
out of 35
80th

Pay ratio

David D. Smith's Pay$7,398,846
Median Employee's Pay$52,250
Pay Ratio

142

to 1

In 2018, the annual total compensation of David D. Smith was $7,398,846.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Sinclair Broadcast Group was $52,250.

The ratio of David D. Smith's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 142 to one.

Source: SEC filing on April 29, 2019.

Smith's colleagues

We found five more compensation records of executives who worked with David D. Smith at Sinclair Broadcast Group in 2018.

2018

Christopher Ripley

Sinclair Broadcast Group

Chief Executive Officer

2018

Steven Marks

Sinclair Broadcast Group

Chief Operating Officer

2018

Barry Faber

Sinclair Broadcast Group

General Counsel

2018

Lucy Rutishauser

Sinclair Broadcast Group

Chief Financial Officer

2018

Robert Weisbord

Sinclair Broadcast Group

President / Broadcast & Chief Advertising Revenue Officer

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