Murren saw his compensation jump 25 percent in 2016 after the Las Vegas-based company beat its .14 billion EBITDA target for the year by 8 percent.
The reward for Murren was a bonus increase of 41.3 percent.
In all, he received $16.6 million?including $2 million in base salary and a total bonus of $5.7 million, according to a corporate filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
He was also granted $7.44 million in stock awards last year and $1.52 million in “other compensation,” including $250,000 for personal use of aircraft and $391,814 for personal security services.
In 2015, he was paid a total of $13.3 million.
A new five-year contract Murren signed with the company last October provides for the same base salary of $2 million a year, plus a target bonus of $4 million. He also will receive a special grant of $2 million of restricted stock units that vest at the end of the contract in 2021.
He owned 1.4 million shares of MGM as of April 5.