Top 10 highest-paid CEOs

NEW YORK — Here are the 10 highest-paid chief executives for 2014, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive pay data firm:

1. Mr David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, US$156.1 million (S$210.7 million), up 368 per cent

2. Mr Leslie Moonves, CBS, US$54.4 million, down 17 per cent

3. Mr Philippe Dauman, Viacom, US$44.3 million, up 19 per cent

4. Mr Robert Iger, Walt Disney, US$43.7 million, up 27 per cent

5. Ms Marissa Mayer, Yahoo, US$42.1 million, up 69 per cent

6. Mr Leonard Schleifer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, US$42 million, up 16 per cent

7. Mr Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com US$39.9 million, up 27 per cent

8. Mr Jeffrey Leiden, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, US$36.6 million, up 179 per cent

9. Mr Brian Roberts, Comcast, US$33 million, up 5 per cent

10. Mr Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner, US$32.7 million, unchanged

AP