Dayton Business Journal...
CEO pay continues to climb
Monday, June 18, 2012 

The leaders of large public companies brought home an average pay hike of 5 percent last year, according to an article in the New York Times. The median pay for the 200 largest public company CEOs was $14.5 million in 2011. 

The increase comes amid top executive pay remaining in the public spotlight. However, the CEO pay increase in 2011 was actually a drop from the previous year. 

In the Dayton region, the top 10 CEOs of local public companies combined to make about $33 million last year, a 50 percent hike compared to $22 million in 2010. 

Paul Barbas from DPL, which was bought by AES Corp., took the local top spot followed by James Wainscott of AK Steel and Michael Koehler of Teradata Corp.