A CEO pay bonanza, how much the rank and file are paid, and a wilderness therapy rabbit hole
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Health care’s high-rollers
Over the past four months, my colleagues and I pored over the filings of roughly 300 of the largest health care companies to give you the most accurate, comprehensive picture of what top executives made in 2021, the second year of the ravaging pandemic. There were a lot of massive pay packages, but none was bigger than the $453 million haul by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals CEO Leonard Schleifer. That’s the equivalent of almost 100 private business jets.
