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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
CAT Caterpillar Inc. Donald Umpleby III 2019 $34,519,129
WFC Wells Fargo & Company Charles Scharf 2019 $34,286,574
CVX Chevron Corporation Michael Wirth 2019 $33,070,662
GBL GAMCO Investors, Inc. Mario Gabelli 2019 $32,236,004
T AT&T Inc. Randall Stephenson 2019 $32,032,925
PSX Phillips 66 Greg Garland 2019 $31,900,878
MS Morgan Stanley James Gorman 2019 $31,642,395
JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co. James Dimon 2019 $31,612,616
BURL Burlington Stores, Inc. Michael O'Sullivan 2020 $31,056,597
LMT Lockheed Martin Corporation Marillyn Hewson 2019 $30,913,982
PLD Prologis, Inc. Hamid Moghadam 2019 $30,383,438
COP ConocoPhillips Ryan Lance 2019 $30,363,744
CDAY Ceridian HCM Holding, Inc. David Ossip 2019 $30,180,957
ATVI Activision Blizzard, Inc. Robert Kotick 2019 $30,122,896
GILD Gilead Sciences, Inc. Daniel O'Day 2019 $29,107,854
LHX L3Harris Technologies, Inc. William Brown 2020 $29,037,879
VLO Valero Energy Corporation Joseph Gorder 2019 $28,200,511
SO The Southern Company Thomas Fanning 2019 $27,865,185
ABT Abbott Laboratories Miles White 2019 $27,802,817
TMUS T-Mobile US, Inc. John Legere 2019 $27,756,690

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