The health news website Stat reported on July 18, 2022, “The CEOs of approximately 300 health care companies collectively took home more than $4.5 billion in 2021,” which is “seven times what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had to spend on studying, surveilling, and managing emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases in 2021, a year in which America approached 1 million cumulative deaths due to Covid-19.”
The top earner was Regeneron Pharmaceuticals CEO Leonard Schleifer, $453 million.
- Read the full report, Health care’s high rollers: As the pandemic raged, CEOs’ earnings surged at https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/18/health-care-ceo-compensation-2021