Charter Communications chairman and CEO Thomas Rutledge received compensation worth $8.74 million in 2019, up slightly from $8.15 million in 2018 and $7.8 million in 2017.
His latest annual pay package was down, however, from his $98.5 million take for 2016 when Charter acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House, according to a regulatory filing.
An SEC filing issued Thursday by Charter, in which John Malone's Liberty Broadband owns a big stake, indicated Rutledge's base salary for 2019 remained at $2 million, while his non-equity incentive plan and "other compensation" was slightly up from the year-earlier period.
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