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Warner Bros. Discovery president and CEO David Zaslav‘s pay package rose just over 4% to $51.9 million in 2024, according to the company’s 2025 proxy statement filed Friday.
Zaslav had a 2023 pay package worth $49.7 million, up 26.5% from the year prior. Zaslav’s compensation totaled $39.3 million in 2022, after he received an astonishing $246.6 million (which included $203 million in stock-option grants) in 2021.
For 2024, Zaslav’s base salary was $3 million. He received stock awards worth $23.1 million, non-equity incentive plan compensation of $23.9 million and “all other” compensation of $1.9 million.
The 2024 pay for WBD’s other C-suite execs was listed alongside Zaslav’s in the filing: CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels received $17 million (flat with his 2023 compensation), chief revenue and strategy officer Bruce Campbell was at $19.8 million (an 8% increase), global streaming and games CEO and president J.B. Perrette’s compensation was $19.7 million (down 2%), and international president Gerhard Zeiler earned $14.8 million (up more than 11%).
Per WBD’s 2025 proxy statement, “In February 2025, the Committee also reviewed the CEO’s and CFO’s achievement of their respective strategic goals, considering the CEO’s and CFO’s self-assessments and, with respect to Mr. Wiedenfels, the input of the CEO and with respect to Mr. Zaslav, the input of the Board. With respect to the strategic goals, the Committee determined that each of Mr. Zaslav and Mr. Wiedenfels had exceeded expectations and over-delivered with respect to their respective strategic goals and approved a payout for the portion of the CEO’s 2024 cash bonus that is based on strategic metrics at 115% of target and a payout of 114% of target for the portion of the CFO’s 2024 cash bonus that is based on strategic metrics.”
