top 10 earners

May 10, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

The 10 highest-paid CEOs for 2009 at Standard & Poor’s 500 companies based on calculations by The Associated Press. The analysis includes companies that filed proxy statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission between Jan. 1 and April 30. The total pay figures are rounded. They are based on the AP’s compensation formula, which adds up salary, perks, bonuses, preferential interest rates on pay set aside for later and company estimates for the value of stock options and stock awards on the day they were granted last year.

Carol Bartz, Yahoo Inc., $47.2 million

Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp., $42.9 million

Marc Casper, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., $34.1 million

Philippe Dauman, Viacom Inc., $33.9 million

J. Raymond Elliott, Boston Scientific Corp., $33.3 million

Ray Irani, Occidental Petroleum Corp., $31.4 million

Glen Senk, Urban Outfitters Inc., $29.9 million

Brian Roberts, Comcast Corp., $27.2 million

William Weldon, Johnson & Johnson, $25.5 million

Louis Camilleri, Philip Morris International Inc., $24.4 million

Associated Press