Bewkes’ package is insanely rich by any normal measure — but puts him at the bottom of the pack among CEOs of Big Media companies that have already released proxy statements for 2011. (This year’s breakdown for Bewkes: $2M salary, $6.1M stock awards, nearly $4M option awards, $13.5M non equity incentives, 253,280 change in pension value, and $97,966 for other compensation.) Although Time Warner shares appreciated 11.9% last year, the board dinged his bonus because the company “did not surpass the financial targets by as great an amount as it did in 2010.” Still, Bewkes’ pay was lopsided when compared to the four other highest paid Time Warner execs. His package amounted to almost as much as the other four combined, and was 3.9 times higher than their average compensation. Corporate governance watchdogs consider it troublesome when a CEO makes more than three times the average for the company’s other top officers.


Nothing wrong with this picture? I guess there’s also nothing wrong with the US economy or media revenues either. Disgraceful.
How many people have been laid off at Warners and New Line in the past five years? Bewkes should go on that Undercover Boss reality show let’s see how he does working a blue collar job put him on the studio sanitation crew let him ride around the back lot in a garbage truck and eat from a lunch truck or let him work as a plumber’s assistant or a carpenter’s assistant. He has to go where he won’t be instantly recognized that’s why Undercover Boss works. And he’s apparently one of the lowest paid studio moguls. They should all be forced to work low level jobs for six months to teach them some humility then they should be laid off the same as all the other employees get pink slips.
As a former employee who was laid off under Bewkes’ watch – that guy can’t even ride an elevator with a regular office employee without the air temperature going down about 10 degrees. He’s in his own corporate bubble. He’d probably freeze if he spoke to a regular employee much less be able to work with one.
This simply isn’t fair! That’s just $500K a week!
Clearly NOT money well spent.
actually that’s pretty reasonable.
Oh, wah! How will he get by?
How sad. What an embarrasement to the late Steve Ross…He would have never put up with this crap when he ran the company.,