Top-paid non-CEOs — pay packages fit for a CEO
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Amazon.com‘s Sebastian Gunningham, who was hired last year from First Data Utilities to oversee seller services, had a pay package fit for a CEO. Valued at $15.6 million, Gunningham’s 2007 pay would have ranked him second among Northwest CEOs, behind James Voelker at InfoSpace and just ahead of Clearwire’s Benjamin Wolff. Amazon set Gunningham’s initial annual salary at $150,000, plus paid him $1.1 million as part of a signing bonus and gave him restricted stock worth more than $14 million. Here are the Northwest’s five top-paid non-CEOs. |
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| Executive | Company | Title | Total compensation |
| Sebastian Gunningham* | Amazon.com | Senior vice president, seller services | $15,588,878 |
| Brian McManus** | InfoSpace | Executive vice president, online | 9,595,266 |
| Kevin Johnson | Microsoft | President, platforms and services division | 8,847,055 |
| Stephen Rotella | Washington Mutual | President and chief operating officer | 8,762,974 |
| Scott Richardson* | Clearwire | Chief strategy officer | 8,441,162 |
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*Gunningham was hired in March 2007; Richardson was hired in January 2007.
**McManus left the company on Dec. 31, 2007. Source: Equilar |
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