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Highest-Paid CEOs

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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.

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Ticker Company CEO Year CEO Pay Sort ascending
BKNG Booking Holdings Inc. Glenn Fogel 2021 $53,982,195
PLUG Plug Power Inc. Andrew Marsh 2021 $52,248,305
PCG PG&E Corporation Patricia Poppe 2021 $51,198,471
RPRX Royalty Pharma Plc Pablo Legorreta 2021 $49,513,461
ALHC Alignment Healthcare, Inc. John Kao 2021 $45,998,850
GOEV Canoo, Inc. Tony Aquila 2021 $44,613,958
ASTR Astra Space, Inc. Chris Kemp 2021 $43,973,670
VUZI Vuzix Corporation Paul Travers 2021 $42,966,518
TGTX TG Therapeutics, Inc. Michael Weiss 2021 $42,666,831
CG The Carlyle Group Inc. Kewsong Lee 2021 $42,322,501
LTH Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. Bahram Akradi 2021 $41,930,718
CHTR Charter Communications, Inc. Thomas Rutledge 2021 $41,860,263
ZS Zscaler, Inc. Jay Chaudhry 2022 $41,530,160
NFLX Netflix, Inc. Reed Hastings 2021 $40,823,725
ETSY Etsy, Inc. Josh Silverman 2021 $40,584,292
STEM Stem, Inc. John Carrington 2021 $40,565,992
YOU Clear Secure, Inc. Caryn Seidman-Becker 2021 $40,341,012
AMWL American Well Corporation Ido Schoenberg 2021 $39,988,708
GS The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. David Solomon 2021 $39,545,072
SG Sweetgreen, Inc. Jonathan Neman 2021 $38,819,816

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