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The biggest CEO pay raises and pay cuts of 2015

Here are the three CEOs who got the biggest pay raises last year, and the deepest pay cuts, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm.

Top raises:

1. Dara Khosrowshahi, Expedia, $94.6 million, up 881 percent. Stock return last fiscal year: 47 percent.

2. Sandeep Mathrani, General Growth Properties, $39.2 million, up 702 percent. Stock return: -1 percent.

3. Richard Handler, Leucadia, $7.4 million, up 404 percent. Stock return: -21 percent. Handler voluntarily gave up a $2.4 million bonus for 2014.

Deepest cuts:

1. Richard Hayne, Urban Outfitters, $44,310, down 92 percent. Stock return: -34 percent.

2. David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $32.4 million, down 79 percent. Stock return: -23 percent.

3. Hock Tan, Broadcom, $4 million, down 77 percent. Stock return: 45 percent.

FILE - In this July 9, 2013, file photo, David Zaslav, President and CEO of Discovery Communications Inc., arrives at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Zaslav was one of the CEOs who took one of the deepest pay cuts in 2015, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive pay research firm. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) The Associated Press
FILE - In this July 9, 2013, file photo, David Zaslav, President and CEO of Discovery Communications Inc., arrives at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Zaslav was one of the CEOs who took one of the deepest pay cuts in 2015, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive pay research firm. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) The Associated Press
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