J&J chief Alex Gorsky suf­fers a big drop in com­pen­sa­tion, but still comes out way ahead of most ma­jor league CEOs

J&J CEO Alex Gorsky took home a se­ri­ous­ly di­min­ished com­pen­sa­tion pack­age for 2018, but there’s no need to add him to your prayer list as he still brought home one of the biggest CEO pay­days record­ed so far this year in the gi­ant phar­ma cat­e­go­ry.

Add it all up and the bio­phar­ma con­glom­er­ate chief earned a pack­age worth a bit over $20 mil­lion. That’s a steep drop from $29.8 mil­lion record­ed for 2017, with a de­cline of $2 mil­lion for his stock op­tions and a wipe­out on pen­sion val­ue. His salary ticked up a tee­ny bit to $1.64 mil­lion, but it’s the eq­ui­ty por­tions that of­fer the up­side when you play in the big leagues.

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