Renato Cataldo, chief executive of photography company CPI Corp., got a far smaller bonus in fiscal 2007 than in 2006, the company’s proxy statement shows.

Cataldo’s total pay was $451,611 last year, down 22 percent from the previous year, according…

Bill Poole, who recently retired as president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, got a 14 percent salary increase last year. His salary of $356,000 — fifth highest among the 12 regional Fed presidents — was disclosed today in…

Thermadyne Industries Chief Executive Paul Melnuk earned $1.05 million in total compensation last year, according to the tally sheet in Thermadyne’s  proxy statement.  If stock and options awards made during 2007 were included, his pay figure would rise to $1.28…

William Donius, who resigned over the weekend as chief executive of Pulaski Financial, will have a little extra cash as he goes off to pursue his “bucket list.” (That phrase, apparently, refers to things he wants to accomplish before he kicks the…

KV Pharmaceutical paid Chief Executive Marc Hermelin a total of $5.3 million last year, according to a proxy statement filed with the SEC. That included a salary of $1.28 million, incentive pay of $2.55 million and retirement accrual of $877,000.…

Panera Bread Co. didn’t pay bonuses to its top executives last year because the company missed its earnings targets. The company also missed most goals in a three-year long-term incentive plan, which paid out at just 27 percent of its…

Top Brown Shoe executives didn’t get a bonus last year because the company didn’t meet its earnings-per-share target, the company reports in a proxy statement filed today with the SEC. Chief Executive Ronald Fromm still got total compensation of nearly $3.5 million,…

Maxine Clark, founder and “chief executive bear” at Build-A-Bear Workshop, got no bonus last year as the company’s performance slumped. She did get a salary of $600,000 and a stock grant worth $878,400, according to a proxy statement filed with…

George Paz, chief executive of Express Scripts, got the maximum payout under his bonus plan last year as part of a $7.96 million pay package, the company discloses in a proxy statement filed with the SEC.

Paz got a salary of…

Arch Coal paid Chief Executive Stephen Leer $3.07 milion in total compensation last year, according to a proxy statement filed with the SEC. That includes $800,000 in salary, $1.27 million in incentive pay and $198,008 in pension value. It also includes $224,775…