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KKR Billionaires Kravis and Roberts Get $203 Million in 2018

Co-founders collect carried interest, dividends and salary
COOs Bae and Nuttall each got about $36.5 million in pay

Henry Kravis
Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg

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By Anders Melin

February 16, 2019 at 2:41 PM UTC

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KKR & Co. founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts took home a combined $203 million in 2018, a decline from a year earlier.

The co-chief executive officers each collected $55.6 million in carried interest and $300,000 in salary, the New York-based private-equity firm said Friday in a regulatory filing. Kravis also received $43 million in dividends while Roberts got $47.4 million. By comparison, they each collected about $170 million in compensation and dividends for 2017.