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Highest-Paid CEOs

CEO pay continues to outpace the pay of working people. In the past 10 years, CEO pay at S&P 500 companies increased more than $340,000 a year to an average of $14.8 million in 2019. Meanwhile, the average production and nonsupervisory worker saw a wage increase of $836 a year, earning on average just $41,442 in 2019.

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Ticker Company CEO Year CEO Pay Sort ascending
QXO QXO, Inc. Brad Jacobs 2024 $189,367,735
VEEV Veeva Systems Inc Peter Gassner 2025 $172,436,133
AXON Axon Enterprise Inc Patrick Smith 2024 $164,525,721
SNOW Snowflake Inc. Sridhar Ramaswamy 2025 $101,325,374
SBUX Starbucks Corp Brian Niccol 2024 $95,801,676
GE General Electric Co Lawrence Culp 2024 $88,954,586
TVGN Tevogen Bio Holdings Inc. Ryan Saadi 2024 $87,764,783
ARES Ares Management Corp Michael Arougheti 2024 $85,381,842
PLTK Playtika Holding Corp. Robert Antokol 2024 $84,141,574
BX Blackstone Inc Stephen Schwarzman 2024 $84,027,074
RIOT Riot Platforms, Inc. Jason Les 2024 $83,532,328
MSFT Microsoft Corp Satya Nadella 2024 $79,106,183
AAPL Apple Inc Tim Cook 2024 $74,609,802
KKR KKR & Co Inc Joseph Bae 2024 $73,087,375
LINE Lineage, Inc. Greg Lehmkuhl 2024 $69,341,442
LSCC Lattice Semiconductor Corp Ford Tamer 2024 $69,154,980
CARR Carrier Global Corp David Gitlin 2024 $65,734,245
NFLX Netflix Inc Ted Sarandos 2024 $61,922,397
SPG Simon Property Group Inc David Simon 2024 $61,394,770
LZ Legalzoom.Com, Inc. Jeffrey Stibel 2024 $61,184,704

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