He owns about $60 million of shares in Nissan, Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Disclosed salaries and dividends over the years total another $60 million or so.Ghosn’s fortune could be even higher. The late Sergio Marchionne held shares of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, Ferrari NV and CNH Industrial NV worth a combined $486 million. Ghosn’s pay was lower than the heads of Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG.There’s an even wider discrepancy outside the automotive world. Eleven executives at public U.S. firms were awarded more than $100 million of compensation in 2017, according to the Bloomberg Pay Index. And prosecutors allege he failed to report eight years of deferred pay, which also amounted to about 9 billion yen.

Source: Economic Times January 08, 2019 21:11 UTC