Highest-Paid CEOs
Highest-Paid CEOs
CEO pay continues to outpace the pay of working people across the country. In the past 10 years, CEO pay at S&P 500 companies increased by more than $540,000 a year to an average of $18.3 million in 2021. Meanwhile, the average U.S. worker saw a wage increase of $1,303 per year over the past decade, earning on average just $58,260 in 2021.
| Ticker | Company | CEO | Year | CEO Pay Sort ascending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXPE | Expedia Group, Inc. | Peter Kern | 2021 | $296,247,749 |
| AMZN | Amazon.com, Inc. | Andrew Jassy | 2021 | $212,701,169 |
| INTC | Intel Corporation | Patrick Gelsinger | 2021 | $178,590,400 |
| NOW | ServiceNow, Inc. | William McDermott | 2021 | $165,802,037 |
| AAPL | Apple Inc. | Timothy Cook | 2021 | $98,734,394 |
| JPM | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | James Dimon | 2021 | $84,428,145 |
| EL | The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. | Fabrizio Freda | 2021 | $65,996,985 |
| PENN | Penn National Gaming, Inc. | Jay Snowden | 2021 | $65,887,214 |
| AVGO | Broadcom Inc. | Hock Tan | 2021 | $60,703,627 |
| FLT | FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. | Ronald Clarke | 2021 | $57,923,473 |
| BKNG | Booking Holdings Inc. | Glenn Fogel | 2021 | $53,982,195 |
| MSFT | Microsoft Corporation | Satya Nadella | 2021 | $49,858,280 |
| CHTR | Charter Communications, Inc. | Thomas Rutledge | 2021 | $41,860,263 |
| NFLX | Netflix, Inc. | Reed Hastings | 2021 | $40,823,725 |
| ETSY | Etsy, Inc. | Josh Silverman | 2021 | $40,584,292 |
| GS | The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | David Solomon | 2021 | $39,545,072 |
| CNP | CenterPoint Energy, Inc. | David Lesar | 2021 | $37,809,810 |
| ADBE | Adobe, Inc. | Shantanu Narayen | 2021 | $36,128,725 |
| AMAT | Applied Materials, Inc. | Gary Dickerson | 2021 | $35,265,559 |
| MS | Morgan Stanley | James Gorman | 2021 | $34,941,635 |