William D. Watkins
2008
In 2008, William D. Watkins earned a total compensation of $7.4M as Chief Executive Officer at Seagate Technology, a 116% increase compared to previous year.
Compensation breakdown
| Non-Equity Incentive Plan | $3,000,000 |
|---|---|
| Option Awards | $2,628,438 |
| Salary | $1,000,002 |
| Stock Awards | $714,000 |
| Other | $19,493 |
| Total | $7,361,933 |
Watkins received $3M in non-equity incentive plan, accounting for 41% of the total pay in 2008.
Watkins also received $2.6M in option awards, $1M in salary, $714K in stock awards and $19.5K in other compensation.
Rankings
In 2008, William D. Watkins' compensation ranked 457th out of 9,135 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Watkins earned more than 95.0% of executives.
| Classification | Ranking | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
All | 457 out of 9,135 | 95th |
Division Manufacturing | 149 out of 3,436 | 96th |
Major group Industrial And Commercial Machinery And Computer Equipment | 17 out of 338 | 95th |
Industry group Computer And Office Equipment | 5 out of 101 | 95th |
Industry Computer Storage Devices | 1 out of 19 | 95th |
Source: SEC filing on September 19, 2008.
Watkins' colleagues
We found four more compensation records of executives who worked with William D. Watkins at Seagate Technology in 2008.