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CEO pay versus performance: See the highest-paid travel bosses and how they scored on total returns for their shareholders.

Dennis Schaal

Glenn Fogel, the CEO of both Booking Holdings and its flagship brand, Booking.com, was the highest-paid travel CEO among the bosses of S&P 500 companies in 2023, with a total package of $46.7 million.

That's according to a recent analysis by The Wall Street Journal, which ranked CEOs according to their 2023 cash compensation and the value of equity awards.

Although the highest-paid travel CEO, Fogel was 10th overall among S&P 500 companies. The top three were Broadcom's Hock Tan ($161.8 million), Palo Alto Networks' Nikesh Aurora ($151.4 million), and Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman ($119.8 million).

You can debate whether any executives are worth these mega packages, but it would be difficult to challenge the results that Fog