Vas Narasimhan, Novartis CEO (Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Vas Narasimhan gets a bump in pay, but still falls well below some rivals
Vasant Narasimhan has never sat down with a reporter and complained about his multi-million dollar pay package, although perhaps it wouldn’t be the worst idea for his bank account.
Novartis disclosed their CEO pay package last week, revealing that Narasimhan earned $14.2 million in 2020. That easily keeps him as one of the most well-compensated executives in the world, with a paycheck large enough to purchase about 73,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, enough to inoculate a small Midwestern city.
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