Snap Inc Chief Executive, Evan Spiegel received USD 637.8 million as total compensation last year after the company went public, the third-highest annual payout ever received by a company’s CEO.
Snap Inc Chief Executive, Evan Spiegel received USD 637.8 million as total compensation last year after the company went public, the third-highest annual payout ever received by a company’s CEO.Spiegel’s payout trails the 2007 and 2008 compensations of Daniel Och, CEO of hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, according to ISS Analytics, the data arm of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.
Och received an annual compensation of USD 918.9 million in fiscal year 2007 and USD 1.19 billion in 2008.Spiegel’s pay package is based on stock-based awards worth USD 636.6 million and salary and other compensation worth about USD 1.2 million, according to a security filing by Snap on Thursday.
“I believe this is the largest value we have seen in the 10 years we’ve been compiling annual ‘highest-paid’ CEO studies,” said Dan Marcec, Director of Content at executive compensation data firm Equilar.
Spiegel earned USD 98,078 as salary in 2017, according to a security filing by the company.
Shares of Snap rose in February above its IPO price of USD 17 for the first time since July.
The company’s shares fell 8 percent on Thursday and analysts attributed the losses to users taking issue with Snap’s latest redesign.
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