CALIFORNIA’S HIGHEST-PAID EXECUTIVES : Home-Builders’ Blues

Bruce Karatz of Kaufman & Broad Home Corp. saw his pay drop from $3 million in 1989 to $1.8 million in 1990--a $1.18 million decline. Second-biggest pay cut will go to Christopher Gibbs, J. M. Peters Co., whose compensation fell from $2.9 million to $1.8 million.