T-Mobile paid John Legere $137 million during his last three months as CEO
But John wasn't the only T-Mobile executive who took home a generous pay check from T-Mobile last year. New CEO Sievert was given stock awards, salary, bonuses and incentives totaling $54.9 million in 2020. He was paid $35.6 million and $16.4 million in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Marcelo Claure (L), John Legere (R) announce the purchase of Sprint by T-Mobile in 2018
Legere returned his key to the executive restroom on April 1st, 2020, the day that the merger he announced almost two years earlier between T-Mobile and Sprint was closed. The deal was all about 5G as the carrier went after Sprint's hoard of mid-band spectrum. Combined with its low-band 600MHz airwaves and some mmWave spectrum, the mid-band spectrum T-Mobile acquired from Sprint was the final piece of the triple-layer cake strategy that has many analysts' expecting T-Mobile to deliver the fastest 5G download data speeds in the states once 5G networks are all built-out in the U.S.
Originally, Legere said that the merger would lead to the creation of 11,000 more jobs than the amount that both T-Mobile and Sprint would have had on a standalone basis by 2024. However, the company has cut approximately 5,000 jobs since the merger closed leading the Communication Workers of America (CWA) to say last month, "That's why we pushed for enforceable commitments from T-Mobile on jobs during the merger process. Regulators need to take a close look at what's happening at T-Mobile and get serious about protecting jobs as part of their oversight of corporate mergers."
But Legere's prediction still has three years remaining, and as it turns out, the CWA might want to prepare itself for all of the egg it might end up wearing on its face. Four months after the merger was announced in 2018, the CWA said that it expected the deal to lead to the removal of over 28,000 jobs at the merged carrier. To repeat, so far that number has amounted to the removal of only 5,000 jobs.ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7sbTOp5yaqpWjrm%2BvzqZmp52nqHytscaeqZ5llZa%2Fr7HDZmhsb12itq24yKilZpylp7avs4yhoKxlnJbAtXnToamenV2ivK%2FAx6xkmqxdqXquu8Gio56XmZl%2BdH2VcGs%3D