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Reflecting a year in which WPP Group resumed modest growth after two years of retrenchment in one of the industry’s worst recessions, CEO Martin Sorrell’s pay jumped 33 percent to about $3.9 million last year, from approximately $2.9 million in 2002. In the holding company’s annual report, released last week, WPP disclosed Sorrell’s base salary was about $1.5 million, with a bonus of some $2.3 million. Sorrell also collected another $46,000 in benefits.

Last year, London-based WPP’s profits climbed 18 percent to $869 million.

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