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NEW YORK — The world’s second-richest man, Warren Buffett, wasn’t even the highest paid employee at Berkshire Hathaway’s 19-person headquarters again last year. Buffett, chairman and chief executive of the Omaha-based company, received $175,000 in compensation in 2008, the same amount he received in 2007, according to a regulatory filing Friday.
Berkshire’s chief financial officer, Marc Hamburg, earned the highest-paid distinction at company headquarters. The company’s CFO received a compensation package of $786,500, a 9 percent increase. But even Hamburg’s pay is almost certainly less than that of CEOs at some of Berkshire’s subsidiaries, such as Geico, MidAmerican Energy and Berkshire Reinsurance.
