Life at the top

From Forbes:

The heads of America's 500 biggest companies received an aggregate 54% pay raise last year. As a group, their total compensation amounted to $5.1 billion, versus $3.3 billion in fiscal 2003. We define total compensation as salary and bonus plus "other" compensation, which includes vested restricted stock grants and "stock gains," the value realized from exercising stock options during the just-concluded fiscal year.

The top of the heap:

Terry S. Semmel, Yahoo, $231 million
Barry Diller, InterActive Corp., $156 million
William W. McGuire, United Health Group, $125 million

I won't comment.