Sidney Taurel- Eli Lilly

Total Compensation: $13M

2007 Revenue: $15.7B
2006 Revenue: $18.6B
Change:  -15%

Details: Taurel earned $1.7 million in base salary in 2007, up from $1.6 million in 2006. However, his overall pay was down, from $15.2 million in 2006 to $13 million last year. He pulled in $7.04 million in stock and options, $4 million in incentives, and $215.044 in other compensation, which included $107,105 for use of the company's aircraft.

Eli Lilly News:
In speech, Lilly CEO calls for drug monitoring [1]
Lilly's Lechleiter: 'We're a biotech' [2]
Lilly joins pharma's new-CEO club [3]
Lilly developing biotech drugs the old-fashioned way [4]