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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |