Stephen Schwarzman, the Blackstone chief executive, took home $213.5m in pay and dividends in 2011, after seeing his pay jump by a third.
Billionaire Schwarzman was paid $74m in cash distributions from investment funds started before Blackstone's 2007 New York listing and $134.5m in dividends from his 21% stake in the company, according to the Financial Times. He was also paid a $350,000 base salary and received $4.6m from the firm's share of investor profits, known as carried interest. His income from Blackstone for 2011 was higher than the $113m taken home by the three founders of Carlyle Group, which is set to list on Nasdaq this year, and the $94m that Henry Kravis and George Roberts, co-founders of KKR, received. ...
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