Special Report: CEO salary review

Million dollar salary packages are becoming increasingly common in Western Australia, WA Business News's fourth annual remuneration survey has found.

Aquila Resources and Paladin Resources provide stunning examples of the huge value that can flow from share options when companies achieve large and sustained increases in their share price.

Wesfarmers chairman Trevor Eastwood sits at the blue chip end of the business spectrum, while Reg Gillard is a veteran mining promoter at the more speculative end of the market. What they have in common, however, is a big income from their directors' fees

Perth companies Monadelphous and Macmahon have a lot in common. They both service the booming resources sector, have about 3,000 staff, reported similar profits in 2006, achieved strong shareholder returns over the past three years, and have a similar mar

As the world of academia has changed, so too have the remuneration packages of the state's public university vice-chancellors.

Western Australia's biggest industrial company, Wesfarmers, has become the place to work for ambitious young executives hoping to earn more than $1 million.

Health supremo Neale Fong has retained his status as Western Australia's highest-paid public sector employee, followed by the chief executives from a clutch of public trading enterprises.