Online Travel Pay Roundup: Booking CEO Leads With $126 Million
Photo Credit: Glenn Fogel, CEO of Booking Holdings, pictured here speaking at Skift Global Forum in September 2022 in New York. Skift / Neil van Niekerk
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It pays to be the CEO of Booking Holdings or Expedia Group. The vast majority of the top paid hotel bosses have some catching up to do.
Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel earned $126.4 million in "compensation actually paid" in 2024, according to the most recent financial filings with the SEC.
That calculation includes the fair value of awards for 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Current Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who took the job on May 13, 2024 and formerly was president of Expedia for Business, earned $37.3 million in the compensation actually paid calculation.
The SEC introduced the "compensation actually paid" starting in 2023 reporting for pay during 2022. It aims to account for the value of unvested stock and option awards as of year-end. For example, a significant driver of Gorin's award value was the 23% jump in Expedia's share price last year.
In summary compensation tables, the SEC also requires disclosures of CEOs' total compensation award. Fogel's pay award in 2024 was $44.8 million, Gorin's was $24.9 million, and Expedia former CEO Peter Kern, who was in the post four-plus months that year before Gor
