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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
SW Smurfit WestRock PLC Anthony Smurfit 2024 $21,329,257
FANG Diamondback Energy Inc Travis Stice 2024 $21,324,079
DUK Duke Energy Corp Lynn Good 2024 $21,281,982
FIS Fidelity National Information Services Inc Stephanie Ferris 2024 $21,243,485
MMM 3M Co William Brown 2024 $21,191,031
KIND Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. Nirav Tolia 2024 $21,177,204
RITM Rithm Capital Corp. Michael Nierenberg 2024 $21,069,074
NPWR NET Power Inc. Daniel Joseph Rice 2024 $20,995,052
WAB Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp Rafael Santana 2024 $20,974,319
ALLY Ally Financial Inc. Michael Rhodes 2024 $20,940,509
KSS KOHLS Corp Ashley Buchanan 2024 $20,907,736
LHX L3Harris Technologies Inc Christopher Kubasik 2024 $20,839,223
SEAT Vivid Seats Inc. Stanley Chia 2024 $20,780,794
IP International Paper Co Andrew Silvernail 2024 $20,732,570
NXT Nextracker Inc. Daniel Shugar 2024 $20,725,590
LIN Linde PLC Sanjiv Lamba 2024 $20,696,088
NXPI NXP Semiconductors NV Kurt Sievers 2024 $20,694,772
DYN Dyne Therapeutics, Inc. John Cox 2024 $20,688,724
SLG Sl Green Realty Corp Marc Holliday 2024 $20,685,756
OSIS Osi Systems Inc Deepak Chopra 2024 $20,683,518

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