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$450m would work out to $900 per employee (assuming 50k employees), not bad for a bonus.

edit: As commenters below pointed out correct number is $9,000 per employee, which would have made for a pretty awesome Christmas bonus.

If we also include CVS employees (240k) the bonus drops to $1,552 which is still pretty good.

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CVS alone had over 240k employee in 2016. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVS_Pharmacy

Aetna has ~50,000 people so this is 450m/50k = 9,000$ each for them not exactly nothing. CVS has more workers but they are paid less so 1,900$ means ~1.5 months of pay to someone making 7.25$ an hour before taxes.

I don't mean to suggest this is a significant issue on it's own, but high level executive compensation really does add up to a significant cost at large corporations. And really, this is just stock compensation he received other pay and benefits.

Think you meant 9,000 per employee in this case.

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