If You Want to Be a Rich CEO, Work in Health Care
- Health care, drugmaker managers average $37 million a year
- Biggest compensation in finance trails health care by 8.6%
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Managing doctors and researchers might be more lucrative than overseeing bankers or computer programmers.
Among the 200 top-paid U.S. executives at public companies, those in health care and pharmaceutical businesses were awarded average pay packages of $37 million in their most recent fiscal year, the most of any sector, according to the Bloomberg Pay Index, which ranks executives based on awarded compensation. Information-technology managers were No. 2 at $35.3 million.