Highest-Paid CEOs
Highest-Paid CEOs
CEO pay continues to outpace the pay of working people across the country. In the past 10 years, typical CEO pay at S&P 500 companies increased by more than $4 million, to an average of $17.7 million in 2023. Meanwhile, the average U.S. worker saw a wage increase of $18,240 over the past decade, earning on average just $65,470 in 2023.
Ticker | Company | CEO | Year | CEO Pay Sort ascending |
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AVGO | Broadcom Inc. | Hock Tan | 2023 | $161,826,161 |
PANW | Palo Alto Networks Inc. | Nikesh Arora | 2023 | $151,425,203 |
EDR | Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. | Ariel Emanuel | 2023 | $83,879,505 |
APP | Applovin Corp. | Adam Foroughi | 2023 | $83,361,678 |
LYFT | Lyft, Inc. | David Risher | 2023 | $78,238,027 |
AAPL | Apple Inc. | Tim Cook | 2023 | $63,209,845 |
ZS | Zscaler, Inc. | Jay Chaudhry | 2023 | $57,775,483 |
SPLK | Splunk Inc. | Gary Steele | 2023 | $51,212,720 |
PLD | Prologis, Inc. | Hamid Moghadam | 2023 | $50,891,597 |
NFLX | Netflix Inc. | Ted Sarandos | 2023 | $49,834,936 |
MULN | Mullen Automotive Inc. | David Michery | 2023 | $49,629,463 |
ADBE | Adobe Inc. | Shantanu Narayen | 2023 | $44,932,578 |
PYPL | Paypal Holdings, Inc. | Alex Chriss | 2023 | $41,916,755 |
CRM | Salesforce, Inc. | Marc Benioff | 2024 | $39,642,173 |
VIR | Vir Biotechnology, Inc. | Marianne De Backer M.Sc. MBA | 2023 | $39,491,495 |
NOW | Servicenow, Inc. | William McDermott | 2023 | $37,606,244 |
PSTG | Pure Storage, Inc. | Charles Giancarlo | 2024 | $36,650,048 |
NVDA | Nvidia Corp. | Jen-Hsun Huang | 2024 | $34,167,902 |
TTD | Trade Desk, Inc. | Jeff Green | 2023 | $32,006,461 |
CSCO | Cisco Systems, Inc. | Charles Robbins | 2023 | $31,843,708 |
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NOTE: For companies with more than one CEO during the year, the highest-paid CEO is included in the database. Pay ratio between CEO pay and median employee pay are displayed as disclosed by each company’s proxy statement. The CEO pay ratio may not equal the displayed CEO’s total compensation due to differing company methodologies in calculating pay ratios.
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