More than Double what Nintendo’s Iwata Makes
Hajime Satomi, the original founder of Sammy Corporation and the current head of Sega Sammy Holdings, made ¥400 million in 2009, or just over $4.5 million in salary, according to a Kotaku report published today. It may not be all of Satomi’s take home pay, as an Andriasang article quotes the final figure, presumably after perks, at $4.9 million.
That figure is more than double the salary of Nintendo head Satoru Iwata. Despite the company being much more profitable, Iwata made about $2.1 million after performance parks in 2009, and only makes a base salary of just $770,000 in US dollars.
Sega Sammy Holdings returned to profitability in the last fiscal year, earning nearly $400 million in FY2010. Still, Satomi’s salary isn’t close to those of some American counterparts, including Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello, who earned over $9.8 million last year after perks, according to Forbes magazine.
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Thank you for reminding me how poor I am.
Sometimes I wonder, what they do with that much money?
Okay, so… what is really the point of this article? So the CEO of a big company made lots of money. Whoop-de-doo. I don’t really see how “newsworthy” this is at all.
Well, the point of this article maybe is to make some fans happy in a way. I mean, ther eis people who is like “YES! HA! Nintendo you suck! This guy made more money than Iwata last year!”
There is people who really likes to read stuff like this. XD
shoot! This dude earns even more than kesha!!!
Nintendo’s money must go elsewhere in their company, that would be a smart buisness plan.