Seat­tle Ge­net­ics CEO Clay Sie­gal­l's comp pack­age soars to $18.1M, ri­val­ing Big Phar­ma chiefs

Af­ter tak­ing share­hold­ers on some­thing of a roller coast­er ride last year, Seat­tle Ge­net­ics CEO Clay Sie­gall re­ward­ed him­self with a com­pen­sa­tion pack­age that swelled to more than twice the size of his fi­nan­cial re­ward for 2017.

Adding sig­nif­i­cant­ly to his columns on stock awards and op­tions, Sie­gall’s com­pen­sa­tion soared to $18.1 mil­lion last year, up from $8.6 mil­lion in 2017 and the $9.5 mil­lion pack­age he gar­nered the year be­fore that. That put his com­pen­sa­tion at a mul­ti­ple of 91 over the av­er­age salary at Seat­tle Ge­net­ics.

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