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title: Media CEO's Rank as Highest Paid Executives
description: Even after coming under heavy scrutiny in 2017 media executives still got paid.
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# [Media CEO's Rank as Highest Paid Executives](https://www.nationalinvestornetwork.com/consumer-services/media-ceos-rank-as-highest-paid-executives)

 Written by [Nick Phillips](https://www.nationalinvestornetwork.com/consumer-services/author/nick-phillips) | Jun 26, 2019 10:22:50 PM

 "The S&P 500's communication-services sector, a group that includes Facebook Inc., Walt Disney Co. and AT&T Inc., posted a median CEO pay of $22.6 million in 2018, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis, higher than any other sector and more than $10 million above the median pay of S&P chief executives as a group."

[Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/media-ceos-reign-over-2018-pay-11561557237)

Notable Salaries:  
David Zaslav of Discovery Inc. - $129.4 million   
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook - $22.6 Million  
Randall Stephenson of AT&T - $29.1 million  
Robert Iger of Disney - $65.6 million  
Reed Hastings of Netflix Inc. - $36.1 million  
Larry Page of Google - $1 million  
Jack Dorsey of Twitter - $1.40 million  
Jeffrey Storey of Century Link - $35.7 million  
Hans Vestberg of Verizon - Hans Vestberg

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