Airbnb’s Megawatt Payday and Should Billionaires Exist?
Photo Credit: Editor-in-Chief Sarah Kopit and Head of Research Seth Borko are the hosts of the Skift Travel Podcast. Skift
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Coming off the release of annual financial reports, we delve into the issue of CEO pay in the travel industry in this week's podcast as several major executives have seen their compensation boom in recent years.
Travel executive pay is a topic we've covered extensively at Skift. In this episode of the Skift Travel Podcast, our full-time hosts, Editor-in-Chief Sarah Kopit and Head of Research Seth Borko discuss several issues related to those often large pay packages — including compensation for Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, whose 10-year pay package could turn into $1 billion or more.
Listen NowSarah Kopit: Welcome back to the Skift Travel Podcast with Seth and Sarah. I am the aforementioned Sarah Kopit, Skift’s editor-in chief, joined as always by Skift’s Head of Research Seth Borko. Say hello, Seth.
Seth Borko: Hey, everybody. Great to see you, Sarah.
Kopit: So today, fresh off the heels of the release of annual financial reports, we are discussing one of my favorite topics — executive compensation. People just love to talk about pay. Get this: in 2022, the Economic Policy Institute estimated that CEOs were paid 344 times as much as a typical wor
