No, the U.S. CEO who likely earned the highest pay in 2015 thus far leads a relatively unknown Los Angeles-based cancer research firm, NantKwest. His name is Patrick Soon-Shiong, and in 2015, the 63-year-old former surgeon earned a whopping $147.6 million.
That’s a head above the $100.5 million Google CEO Sundar Pinchai earned in the same year. And its 14 times the median amount that CEOs in about 400 of the U.S.’s largest companies were paid in the same year: $10.5 million. NantKWest’s own market cap is about $703 million, according to regulatory filings.
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