$558,829 is 23% more than the MD of Buru gets ($454,216) for a...

$558,829 is 23% more than the MD of Buru gets ($454,216) for a company 30 times larger by market cap and probably 10 times larger by personnel. Call me old fashioned but you used to only get paid half a million bucks when you found oil. $558k is currently 8% of OBL's market cap.

It's pretty outrageous. That said 5 years ago Doyle was working for $80k/yr. They used to be really good with wages, too "good" - they didn't pay themselves enough. Seriously they really stretched their money out. 6-7 years ago he was earning closer to $50k/yr which is silly. Good form and all, but I think even in the GFC you expect the head of a company to earn more than $44-55k. I mean I don't begrudge them making some of that back at all in later years but it's been more than a six figure payrise each year for the last 4 years. Probably would have been sensible to have paid themselves more back then and had a flatter rise but it probably wasn't as easy to raise money back then either.