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 $500,000 a year to an average of $14.5 million in 2018. Meanwhile, the average production and nonsupervisory worker saw a wage increase of $785 a year, earning on average just $39,888 in 2018.
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| Ticker | Company | CEO | Year | CEO Pay Sort ascending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AXP | American Express Co. | Kenneth Chenault | 2018 | $24,208,661 |
| NOC | Northrop Grumman Corp. | Wesley Bush | 2018 | $24,185,259 |
| C | Citigroup Inc. | Michael Corbat | 2018 | $24,183,714 |
| LVS | Las Vegas Sands Corp. | Sheldon Adelson | 2018 | $24,012,913 |
| BLUE | bluebird bio, Inc. | Nick Leschly | 2018 | $23,962,220 |
| OMC | Omnicom Group, Inc. | John Wren | 2018 | $23,945,128 |
| WMT | Walmart, Inc. | C. McMillon | 2019 | $23,618,233 |
| UHS | Universal Health Services, Inc. | Alan Miller | 2018 | $23,588,883 |
| VMW | VMware, Inc. | Patrick Gelsinger | 2019 | $23,569,191 |
| TPC | Tutor Perini Corp. | Ronald Tutor | 2018 | $23,492,298 |
| TDG | TransDigm Group, Inc. | Kevin Stein | 2018 | $23,471,608 |
| COP | ConocoPhillips | Ryan Lance | 2018 | $23,406,270 |
| BA | The Boeing Co. | Dennis Muilenburg | 2018 | $23,392,187 |
| GS | The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | Lloyd Blankfein | 2018 | $23,390,658 |
| BAC | Bank of America Corp. | Brian Moynihan | 2018 | $22,754,510 |
| CHK | Chesapeake Energy Corp. | Robert Lawler | 2018 | $22,745,427 |
| NCLH | Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. | Frank Rio | 2018 | $22,593,061 |
| FB | Facebook, Inc. | Mark Zuckerberg | 2018 | $22,554,543 |
| GDDY | GoDaddy, Inc. | Scott Wagner | 2018 | $22,520,839 |
| RTN | Raytheon Co. | Thomas Kennedy | 2018 | $22,420,258 |