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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CGEM | Cullinan Oncology, Inc. | Nadim Ahmed | 2021 | $38,547,200 |
| ATUS | Altice USA, Inc. | Dexter Goei | 2021 | $38,333,508 |
| CNP | CenterPoint Energy, Inc. | David Lesar | 2021 | $37,809,810 |
| LILAK | Liberty Latin America Ltd. | Balan Nair | 2021 | $37,576,803 |
| HLGN | Heliogen, Inc. | William Gross | 2021 | $37,069,799 |
| ADBE | Adobe, Inc. | Shantanu Narayen | 2021 | $36,128,725 |
| IAS | Integral Ad Science Holding Corp. | Lisa Utzschneider | 2021 | $35,782,332 |
| TIL | Instil Bio, Inc. | Bronson Crouch | 2021 | $35,775,826 |
| PWSC | PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. | Hardeep Gulati | 2021 | $35,655,054 |
| RXT | Rackspace Technology, Inc. | Kevin Jones | 2021 | $35,270,070 |
| AMAT | Applied Materials, Inc. | Gary Dickerson | 2021 | $35,265,559 |
| ZIP | ZipRecruiter, Inc. | Ian Siegel | 2021 | $35,103,490 |
| MS | Morgan Stanley | James Gorman | 2021 | $34,941,635 |
| UPWK | Upwork, Inc. | Hayden Brown | 2021 | $34,909,304 |
| MP | MP Materials Corp. | James Litinsky | 2021 | $34,832,000 |
| BFLY | Butterfly Network, Inc. | Todd Fruchterman | 2021 | $34,816,164 |
| CURV | Torrid Holdings, Inc. | Elizabeth Muñoz-Guzman | 2022 | $34,426,743 |
| BE | Bloom Energy Corporation | K. Sridhar | 2021 | $34,210,000 |
| WEJO | Wejo Group Ltd. | Richard Barlow | 2021 | $34,174,436 |
| AVIR | Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Jean-Pierre Sommadossi | 2021 | $34,104,892 |