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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
HIMS Hims & Hers Health, Inc. Mr. Dudum 2024 $24,609,077
AMGN Amgen Inc Robert Bradway 2024 $24,428,495
NOC Northrop Grumman Corp Kathy Warden 2024 $24,359,199
GEV GE Vernova Inc Scott Strazik 2024 $24,326,338
JNJ Johnson & Johnson Joaquin Duato 2024 $24,302,360
FWONK Liberty Media Corp Gregory Maffei 2024 $24,291,922
NVST Envista Holdings Corp Paul Keel 2024 $24,236,357
LNG Cheniere Energy, Inc. Jack Fusco 2024 $24,188,539
BIIB Biogen Inc Christopher Viehbacher 2024 $24,166,665
VZ Verizon Communications Inc Hans Vestberg 2024 $24,160,024
IFF International Flavors & Fragrances Inc Erik Fyrwald 2024 $24,154,267
UPS United Parcel Service Inc Carol Tomé 2024 $24,063,977
CAG Conagra Brands Inc Sean Connolly 2024 $24,030,226
SPGI S&P Global Inc Douglas Peterson 2024 $23,979,719
CME CME Group Inc Terrence Duffy 2024 $23,945,589
OWL Blue Owl Capital Inc. Douglas Ostrover 2024 $23,912,432
SO Southern Co Christopher Womack 2024 $23,885,173
BLCO Bausch & Lomb Corp Brenton Saunders 2024 $23,860,756
FOX Fox Corp Lachlan K. Murdoch 2024 $23,806,025
HCA HCA Healthcare Inc Samuel Hazen 2024 $23,799,137

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