The SAI Wealthometer

We don't know about you, but we're tired of calculating the wealth of this or that digital mogul every twenty minutes. We're also tired of trying to figure out who's richer than whom, who's feeling shareholder pleasure and pain (and who isn't), whose money is where his or her mouth is, etc.

So that's why we created the SAI Wealthometer!

With this handy tool, the real-time digital mogul pecking order is always a click away. The Wealthometer calculates the value of each executive's stake in his or her company in real-time (with a 20-minute lag). In some cases, we also consider options, but only when they're in the money (none of that Black Scholes stuff here). Importantly, the Wealthometer doesn't include the billions that the moguls have stashed in assets besides their companies, but life's too short to worry about that (and we're not stalkers).

The Wealthometer's stock, options, and strike-price info comes from the most recent proxy statements. In some cases, of course, pure share ownership gives a misleading picture of an executive’s wealth: The top dogs at CBS, Time Warner, News Corp and Viacom (except for Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone) all have more stock options than actual shares. Most of the options for these folks are now out of the money (that old-media collapse thing), but in the future, we'll get better at valuing them.

For now, however, to see how much the biggest names are making or losing as their share prices move, check out the first version of the SAI Wealthometer. Top 12 moguls (at press time) below. The rest on the real-time Wealthometer further below.

THE TOP 12