CEO pay league table: biotech hero beats big pharma bosses
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Who was the top-paid big pharma executive among in 2012? If you discount Johnson & Johnson's William Weldon, who stood down as CEO in April but continued as chairman until 28 December, taking home $29.8m in total compensation, then it was a near tie, but Abbott Laboratories' Miles White on $25.1m was pipped to the post by Pfizer's Ian Read with $25.6m.
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