BlackRock hiked CEO Larry Fink's pay by 9 percent in 2017: filing

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[April 13, 2018]  NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlackRock Inc <BLK.N>, the world's largest asset manager, raised the total compensation for Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink by 8.9 percent in 2017, according to a filing on Friday.

Larry Fink, Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock, takes part in the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit in New York, U.S., February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo

Fink was awarded $27.7 million in compensation last year, compared with $25.5 million in 2016, based on a calculation of his pay in line with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission guidelines.

But BlackRock said it had raised Fink's pay for the year by 9.6 percent to $27.9 million, according to a set of calculations it prefers.

(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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