Media chieftains don’t suffer from low self-esteem and believe they’re entitled to make far more than most CEOs at similarly sized companies — and much more for 12 months of work than an average employee could make in several lifetimes.
It would take about 410 years for a typical employee at AT&T, Comcast, Disney or ViacomCBS to match the $37.6 million median size of the packages paid to each CEO last year, according to their most recent proxies.