By Dominic Jones | Published: March 14, 2007 | 
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This blogger made $12.6 million last year
By Dominic Jones
CEO blogger and podcaster Bill Marriott of Marriott International Inc., the world’s biggest hotel chain, was paid total compensation last year of $12.6 million, according to the company’s proxy statement filed yesterday.
Marriott, 75, who has not been shy to tackle contentious subjects on his blog, Marriott on the Move, has even more reason to feel blessed.
Yesterday, he welcomed the birth of a new grandchild — a beautiful seven pounds, one ounce baby girl.
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| Screenshot from Bill Marriott’s blog |
It’s hard to begrudge Bill his pay given that he has captained the company for 35 years and seen it grow into the world’s biggest hotel chain by revenue with 2006 earnings of $608 million and revenue of $12 billion.
Still, I’m interested to see if or how Bill tackles the pay question on his blog.
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March 16th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
[...] It’s also the kind of bandwagon-jumping that will probably be the death of me. Phil, though, brings up the point of who actually reads corporate blogs. I do, but only because I have an interest in the subject matter. Even then, only Bill Marriott’s blog stands out in my mind and that’s just because he’s an old man getting paid millions of dollars to blog. [...]