Data in hand, the CEOs of some companies have seen total revenues of nearly a billion dollars.
Despite the outbreak of a pandemic, many CEOs of video game companies in 2020 received staggering salaries: this is what emerges from a report conducted by Games One, which lists i 42 highest paid CEOs in the industry.
The data refer not only to net salaries, but also to bonuses, benefits and shares on the stock exchange. Inside the report it says that “The common share companies belong to the investors, who elect a board of directors, which selects the CEO. The board is responsible for the compensation and its decisions are ratified by the vote of the investors”. The report concludes with a particular note: “The list is … democracy in action”.
Here are the top ten names on the list:
- Robert Antokol, Playtika; $ 372,008,176
- Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard; $ 154,613,318
- Andrew Paradise, Skillz; $ 103,321,052
- Andrew Wilson, Electronic Arts; $ 34,715,802
- Frank Gibeau, Zynga; $ 32,003,768
- John Riccitiello, Unity; $ 22,001,733
- Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two; $ 18,111,761
- Taek-Jin Kim, NCSoft; $ 15,620,773
- Min-Liang Tan, Razer; $ 10,457,000
- Debbie Bestwick, Team17; $ 10,242,642
Inside there are also the CEOs of many other well-known companies, such as Ubisoft and CD Projekt, but as for the end, the last name of the top 42 is Lars Wingefors of Embracer Group, who earned “only” 162 thousand dollars. in 2020, an absolutely small number when compared with the first numbers on the list. There “democracy in action”, in short, it moves impressive capital, and in the comments one could also talk about the disparity in compensation between developers and CEOs; in some cases, the ratio is as much as 1 to 5,000. Should CEOs earn less, or should developers earn more?
Source: Kotaku
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