{"id":561740,"date":"2023-03-10T11:17:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T05:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=561740"},"modified":"2023-03-10T12:44:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T07:14:03","slug":"shell-ceo-pay-up-50-as-soaring-energy-prices-boosted-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shell-ceo-pay-up-50-as-soaring-energy-prices-boosted-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell CEO pay up 50% as soaring energy prices boosted profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pay package for Shell\u2019s CEO jumped by half last year to nearly $12 million, the fossil fuel giant said on Thursday, as oil and gas companies made record profits from skyrocketing energy costs that have driven a cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n<p>London-based Shell paid Ben van Beurden a total of 9.7 million pounds (USD 11.5 million) in 2022 as annual company profits doubled to an all-time high of USD 40 billion because Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine sent oil and gas prices soaring.<\/p>\n<p>Van Beurden\u2019s pay includes a 2.6 million-pound bonus and 4.9 million pounds worth of stock, according to the company\u2019s annual report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pay package for Shell\u2019s CEO jumped by half last year to nearly $12 million, the fossil fuel giant said on Thursday, as oil and gas companies made record profits from skyrocketing energy costs that have driven a cost-of-living crisis. London-based Shell paid Ben van Beurden a total of 9.7 million pounds (USD 11.5 million) in 2022 as annual company profits doubled to an all-time high of USD 40 billion because Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine sent oil and gas prices soaring. Van Beurden\u2019s pay includes a 2.6 million-pound bonus and 4.9 million pounds worth of stock, according to the company\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}