Rupert Murdoch, News Corp CEO: $29.6m
Peter Chernin, News Corp COO: $28.8m
Frank Lowy, Westfield chairman: $13.4m
Peter Yates, sacked PBL CEO: $10.55m
Allan Moss, Macquarie Bank CEO: $9.08m
Frank Cicutto, ousted NAB CEO: $9m
Wal King, Leighton CEO: $8.2m
David Morgan, Westpac CEO: $7m
Michael Chaney, Wesfarmers CEO: $6.7m
Chip Goodyear, BHP-Billiton CEO: $6.4m
Andrew Mohl, AMP CEO: $6.2m
Geoff Dixon, Qantas CEO: $6.1m
Miklos Salomon, BHP deputy CEO: $6.1m
Ted Kunkel: ousted Foster’s CEO $5.9m (plus $12.25m in super and leave etc)
Russell Jones, ousted Amcor CEO: $5.2m
Stuart James, Mayne CEO: $4.8m
David Murray, ComBank CEO: $4.42m
Roger Corbett, Woolworths CEO: $4.12m
Leigh Clifford, Rio Tinto CEO: $4.11m
Kirby Adams, Bluescope Steel CEO: $4.1m
Phil Aitken, BHP-Billiton energy chief: $4.01m
Peter Hall, Managing Director, Hunter Hall International: $3.578m
Chris Lynch, BHP-Billiton CFO: $3.34m
John Mulcahy, Suncorp-Metway CEO: 3.29m
Michael Ullmer, departed ComBank CFO: $3.3m
Ziggy Switkowski, Telstra CEO: $2.7m
Fred Hilmer, Fairfax CEO: $2.48m

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