The New York Times Co. chairman and publisher Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger Jr. is no longer the highest-paid executive at the company.

That title now belongs to Chief Executive Mark Thompson, whose total compensation nearly doubled last year — to $8.7 million, up from $4.5 million.

Most of that increase reflects stock awards, which swelled to almost $5 million, from $2.3 million in 2014, according to the company’s shareholder proxy statement filed this week.

Thompson’s non-equity incentive plan also more than doubled, to $2.6 million, last year.

He pocketed the same base salary of $1 million in 2015, slightly less than Sulzberger’s, the filing showed.

Although Sulzberger’s $1.1 million in base pay stayed the same, his overall pay package dipped nearly 15 percent last year, to $5.86 million, due mostly to change in the value of his pension plan.

His stock awards were trimmed by 2.7 percent, to just under $2 million, in 2015.

On the plus side, his non-equity incentive compensation, which is based on longer-term performance, jumped nearly 18 percent, to $2.7 million, last year.

While Sulzberger lost his title as the top-paid executive, he rakes in more than the other members of the Ochs-Sulzberger clan who work at the family-controlled company.

His first cousin Vice Chairman Michael Golden had to make do with a pay package of $2.1 million, down from $2.7 million in 2014.