(Reuters) –Warner Bros Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) CEO David Zaslav\’s annual compensation rose nearly 27% to $49.7 million in 2023, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed on Friday.
Although the figure rose from the prior year, the pay dwarfs Zaslav\’s 2021 compensation of $246.5 million.
Zaslav received stock awards of $23.1 million in 2023, compared with $12 million in 2022.