At troubled UnitedHealth Group, a highly unusual pay package—potentially worth $60 million to its boomerang CEO—heads to a June vote

https://fortune.com/2025/05/29/unitedhealthcare-ceo-stephen-hemsley-pay-package-stock/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/23496873

Stephen Hemsley who turns 73 in June, will get a base salary of $1 million a year—big money but actually below the usual salary for CEOs of such large companies. More important, he would get a one-time $60 million grant of stock options, with a twist: He would get the payoff only if he remains CEO for three years. He would get no other stock-based awards in that period.

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Strath@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Looks like an incentive to try and stay alive for three years.

gadfly1999@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

I was gonna say it was Hazard Pay.