Telstra CEO gets $700,000 pay rise to $6.8m despite Australia-wide outage

Telstra's chief executive, Vicki Brady, received six point eight million dollars in compensation for the year ending in June—up seven hundred thousand dollars from the prior year, The Guardian reports. The raise follows a nationwide network outage in July that affected millions of Australians. In response, Telstra's board cut her bonus by six hundred seven thousand dollars, and senior executive bonuses company-wide by one point three million dollars total—yet her overall compensation still grew year-over-year.

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