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 $5 million to an average of $16.7 million in 2022. Meanwhile, the average U.S. worker saw a wage increase of $15,460 over the past decade, earning on average just $61,900 in 2022.
Ticker | Company | CEO | Year | CEO Pay Sort ascending |
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NVST | Envista Holdings Corp. | Amir Aghdaei | 2022 | $8,523,732 |
BIG | Big Lots Inc. | Bruce Thorn | 2022 | $8,523,181 |
DRI | Darden Restaurants Inc. | Ricardo Cardenas | 2023 | $8,500,029 |
BRDS | Bird Global, Inc. | Shane Torchiana | 2022 | $8,494,722 |
GPS | Gap Inc. | Bob Martin | 2022 | $8,493,907 |
UPWK | Upwork, Inc. | Hayden Brown | 2022 | $8,474,727 |
ROLL | Rbc Bearings Inc. | Michael Hartnett | 2023 | $8,450,217 |
RPD | Rapid7, Inc. | Corey Thomas | 2022 | $8,446,001 |
DKS | Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. | Lauren Hobart | 2022 | $8,434,366 |
NDSN | Nordson Corp. | Sundaram Nagarajan | 2022 | $8,432,113 |
ASGN | Asgn Inc. | Theodore Hanson | 2022 | $8,420,365 |
SWAV | Shockwave Medical, Inc. | Doug Godshall | 2022 | $8,418,871 |
SONO | Sonos Inc. | Patrick Spence | 2022 | $8,411,949 |
NVAX | Novavax Inc. | Stanley Erck | 2022 | $8,401,283 |
NATI | National Instruments Corp. | Eric Starkloff | 2022 | $8,398,504 |
TDY | Teledyne Technologies Inc. | Robert Mehrabian | 2022 | $8,397,536 |
CRUS | Cirrus Logic, Inc. | John Forsyth | 2023 | $8,393,825 |
AMRN | Amarin Corp Plc\uk | Karim Mikhail | 2022 | $8,393,551 |
ESRT | Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. | Anthony Malkin | 2022 | $8,392,821 |
RDN | Radian Group Inc. | Richard Thornberry | 2022 | $8,386,720 |