Paramount Skydance chairman and CEO David Ellison, who is in the midst of trying close a massive deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, had a pay package worth $63.2 million last year.
Jeff Shell, who resigned as Paramount’s president earlier this month to “focus” on a defamation lawsuit filed against him, had a total compensation package worth $60.68 million. The company disclosed the executive compensation in an SEC filing Friday.
In addition, chief legal officer Makan Delrahim, who joined the company in September, had 2025 compensation worth $63.58 million, per the filing. Delrahim had advised Skydance on its takeover of Paramount Global. He was formerly an assistant attorney general overseeing the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division during President Trump’s first term.
Former RedBird Capital Partners executive Andy Gordon, Paramount’s chief strategy officer and COO, had a pay package worth $48.5 million.
The bulk of each exec’s compensation for 2025 was in stock.
Ellison had a base salary of $1.41 million and cash bonus of $1.41 million, both pro-rated for the time of his employment from Aug. 7 (when the Paramount-Skydance deal closed) through the end of 2025.
From Variety US
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