(Bloomberg) -- KKR & Co.'s Henry Kravis took home $169.7 million last year, while fellow co-founder George Roberts topped that with $173.1 million.
Each of the two, who are cousins, earned a $300,000 salary and about $67.8 million in carried interest, or his share of investment profits, according to New York-based KKR's annual report filed Friday. Much of the windfall came in dividends, with each taking home more than $56 million.
In 2016, Kravis got $116 million and Roberts received $119 million.
The dividends came out of KKR's distributable earnings, which rose to $1.56 billion last year from $1.53 billion in 2016. Sales of shares in food-service distributor U.S. Foods Holding Corp. and industrial equipment maker Gardner Denver Holdings Inc., as well as KKR's disposal of drug-capsule maker Capsugel SA, helped fuel the profit measure.
KKR managed $168.5 billion across private equity holdings, credit assets, real estate and hedge funds as of Dec. 31. Kravis and Roberts, both 74, started the firm with Jerry Kohlberg in 1976. Kohlberg left in 1987 and died in 2015.
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