William Wells

Overview 2010 2009 2008

2008

In 2008, William Wells earned a total compensation of $4.3M as Chief Executive Officer 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 Wells' compensation ranked 993rd out of 9,135 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Wells earned more than 89.1% of executives.

Classification	Ranking	Percentile
All	993 out of 9,135	89th
Division Manufacturing	356 out of 3,436	90th
Major group Chemicals And Allied Products	69 out of 815	92nd
Industry group Drugs	43 out of 597	93rd
Industry Pharmaceutical Preparations	37 out of 408	91st

Source: SEC filing on April 14, 2011.

2009

Wells' colleagues

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