Media CEOs ranked: How much bang for all the bucks?

Hal Crawford

March 14, 2025 11:02

A comparison of CEO maximum pay shows that newly appointed Nine boss Matt Stanton is on a good wicket, out-earning all his predecessors and publicly owned competitors.

Mumbrella has put together a leaderboard of the maximum possible annual pay coming to the bosses of Nine, Seven, Ooh Media, ARN, and Southern Cross Austereo (SCA).

We have also ranked CEOs in terms of market cap value for every dollar they stand to earn.

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Hal Crawford

Crawford has worked across news media over a 30-year career, including running Ninemsn editorial in Sydney (editor-in-chief and publisher) and the TV3 newsroom in Auckland (chief news officer).

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