Money At The Top: Salaries Of The Big Boys

Yahoo! has proved to be useful for something. The web outlet lists salaries of top executives at some of the major advertising groups on its finance page. Dollar amounts are as of December 31, 2006. “Pay” is salary, bonuses, etc. “Exercised” is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Who says there’s no money in advertising?

WPP Group

Martin Sorrell, Group Chief Exec. Office and Exec. Director – Pay: $5.05M. Exercised: $22.07M

Howard Paster, Exec. VP of PR and Public Affairs – Pay: $392,000K

Mark Read, Director of Strategy and Exec. Director – Pay: $837,000K

*The salaries of both Shelly Lazarus, Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather and Paul Richardson, Group Finance Director are both unavailable.

Omnicom Group

John D. Wren, Chief Exec. Officer and President – Pay: $7M; Exercised: $13.31M

Randall J. Weisenburger, Chief Financial Office and Exec. VP – Pay: $5.48M; Exercised: $16.91M

Jean-Marie Dru, Chief Exec. Officer and Pres. of TBWA Worldwide – Pay: $3.41M; Exercised: $3.86M

*The salaries of both Andrew Robertson, Chief Exec. Office of BBDO and Thomas Harrison, Chairman and Chief Exec. of Diversified Agency Services and more, are both unavailable.

Interpublic Group

Sadly, no information is available for Michael Roth (Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer, Pres and Chairman of Exec. Committee), Frank Mergenthaler (Chief Financial Officer and Exec. VP), Stephen Gatfield (Exec. VP of Global Operations & Innovation, Exec. VP of Strategy & Network Operations and Chief Exec. Officer of Lowe Worldwide), Phillppe Kraktowsky (Exec. VP of Corp. Relations and Strategy) and Timothy Sompoiski (Chief HR Officer and Exec. VP). Boo.