Roger Ailes
2012
In 2012, Roger Ailes earned a total compensation of $21.1M as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FOX News Channel and FOX Business Network and Chairman of Fox Television Stations and Twentieth Television at Twenty-First Century Fox, a 35% increase compared to previous year.
Compensation breakdown
| Bonus | $1,500,000 |
|---|---|
| Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings | $1,187,000 |
| Non-Equity Incentive Plan | $9,000,000 |
| Salary | $5,000,000 |
| Stock Awards | $4,057,500 |
| Other | $317,655 |
| Total | $21,062,155 |
Ailes received $9M in non-equity incentive plan, accounting for 43% of the total pay in 2012.
Ailes also received $1.5M in bonus, $1.2M of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $5M in salary, $4.1M in stock awards and $317.7K in other compensation.
Rankings
In 2012, Roger Ailes' compensation ranked 83rd out of 11,487 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Ailes earned more than 99.3% of executives.
| Classification | Ranking | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
All | 83 out of 11,487 | 99th |
Division Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services | 12 out of 916 | 99th |
Major group Communications | 9 out of 268 | 97th |
Industry group Cable And Other Pay Television Services | 6 out of 58 | 90th |
Industry Cable and Other Pay Television Services | 6 out of 58 | 90th |
Source: SEC filing on September 4, 2012.
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