William Bill Wells

Overview 2009 2008

2008

In 2008, William Bill Wells earned a total compensation of $4.3M as Chief Executive Officer and President, BLS at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.

Compensation breakdown

Non-Equity Incentive Plan	$860,000
Option Awards	$162,000
Salary	$573,520
Stock Awards	$2,151,250
Other	$584,809
Total	$4,331,579

Wells received $2.2M in stock awards, accounting for 50% of the total pay in 2008.

Wells also received $860K in non-equity incentive plan, $162K in option awards, $573.5K in salary and $584.8K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2008, William Bill Wells' compensation ranked 994th out of 9,135 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Wells earned more than 89.1% of executives.

Classification	Ranking	Percentile
All	994 out of 9,135	89th
Division Manufacturing	357 out of 3,436	90th
Major group Chemicals And Allied Products	70 out of 815	91st
Industry group Drugs	44 out of 597	93rd
Industry Pharmaceutical Preparations	38 out of 408	91st

Source: SEC filing on April 21, 2010.

2009

Wells' colleagues

We found six more compensation records of executives who worked with William Bill Wells at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International in 2008.