Israeli CEOs earned more as profits shrank

While investors have had to come to terms with the decimation of profits at some of Tel Aviv's biggest companies, that can't be said of the top managers.

In 2008 the combined profit of the companies listed on the TA-25 index, which tracks the biggest 25 listed companies by market capitalization, dropped by 40% from the year before. That's sobering stuff.

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Yet the average salaries of these companies' CEOs rose by about 30%, to NIS 7.9 million in 2008 (in terms of wage cost), according to a study by the remuneration department at PricewaterhouseCoopers Kesselman & Kesselman.