Disney reveals enormous $38M pay package for new CEO Josh D’Amaro
By Ariel Zilber
Published Feb. 3, 2026, 10:32 a.m. ET
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D’Amaro, the head of Disney theme parks, will earn an annual base salary of $2.5 million as well as a one-time bonus of $9.75 million once he takes over the helm, according to SEC filings.
Each year that D’Amaro serves as CEO, he will receive a long-term stock incentive of $26.2 million as well as an annual bonus of 250% of his base salary on the condition that he meets certain performance goals.
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Sorry, but I don’t believe that ANY C level of anything should be paid more than the President.
It’s “unseemly” and well as an insult to any wage slave.
AT BEST, the CEO should receive any “excessive compensation” (i.e., more than the President of the USA) in the form on non-transferable corporate bonds or corporate shares laddered over say 50 years. Gone are the days when we should allow the “managerial class” to rob the corporation and shareholders of their wealth by pursuing short-range plans to jack up the stock price and leave with tremendous windfalls while the corporation spirals into bankruptcy! Leaving the stockholders and stakeholders (i.e., employees; suppliers; related businesses) holding the “bag” of the corporation’s losses. Thinking specifically of GM that got a Gooferment bailout and everyone else involved get screwed.
So, since “corporations” are a creation of the Gooferment, and sometimes treated like real people, it seems reasonable that there should be some ground rules about what they can and can not do. In addition to compensation restrictions, I don’t think that they should be able to contribute money to anything but dividend to their shareholders.
I’m tired of playing in a rigged game.
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