CEO pay watch: Digital River's Ronning: $5 million

Joel Ronning, CEOTotal compensation: $5,065,735 for the year ended Dec. 31

Salary: $450,000

Non-equity incentive pay: $483,820

Other compensation: $19,144

Exercised stock options: $2,823,623

Value realized on vesting shares: $1,289,148

Total 2010 return to shareholders: 27.5 percent

Digital River's core revenue, excluding the sales of former customer Symantec Corp., rose 17 percent during the year as the company offset the loss of Symantec, which had accounted for about 30 percent of sales. Executives hit 86 percent of annual incentive targets and 91 percent of long-term incentive targets.