Washington Mutual paid former CEO Kerry Killinger $14.4 million in 2007 and over $54 million from 2002-07, Forbes reports. In return, the nearly 120-year-old firm was led into the biggest bank failure in U.S. history.

I'm sure many of WaMu's investors, employees and depositors would prefer terms unsuitable for publication, especially when they learn current WaMu CEO Alan Fishman is entitled to $11.6 million in cash severance and to keep his $7.5 million signing bonus, The New York Times reports. (Not bad for about three weeks of work.)