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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
CL Colgate-Palmolive Co Noel Wallace 2024 $18,234,864
STRZ Starz Entertainment Corp Jon Feltheimer 2024 $18,213,948
ISRG Intuitive Surgical Inc Gary Guthart 2024 $18,196,432
MCD McDonald’s Corp Christopher Kempczinski 2024 $18,195,263
PINS Pinterest, Inc. Bill Ready 2024 $18,143,031
TKO TKO Group Holdings Inc Ariel Emanuel 2024 $18,129,271
ULS UL Solutions Inc. Jennifer Scanlon 2024 $18,121,504
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc Liam Griffin 2024 $18,096,527
TLS Telos Corp John Wood 2024 $18,082,345
GOGO Gogo Inc. Christopher Moore 2024 $18,075,027
BAX Baxter International Inc José Almeida 2024 $18,071,015
FFIV F5 Inc François Locoh-Donou 2024 $18,044,442
HES Hess Corp Hess John 2024 $18,036,267
RTX RTX Corp Christopher Calio 2024 $18,004,831
ETSY Etsy Inc Josh Silverman 2024 $17,956,561
EL Estee Lauder Cos Inc Fabrizio Freda 2024 $17,851,573
SUPN Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Jack Khattar 2024 $17,848,004
NLY Annaly Capital Management Inc David Finkelstein 2024 $17,825,542
CVS CVS Health Corp David Joyner 2024 $17,808,792
ACHR Archer Aviation Inc. Adam Goldstein 2024 $17,763,000

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