Highest-Paid CEOs
Highest-Paid CEOs
CEO pay continues to outpace the pay of working people across the country. In the past 10 years, typical CEO pay at S&P 500 companies increased by more than $4 million, to an average of $17.7 million in 2023. Meanwhile, the average U.S. worker saw a wage increase of $18,240 over the past decade, earning on average just $65,470 in 2023.
| Ticker | Company | CEO | Year | CEO Pay Sort ascending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OMC | Omnicom Group Inc. | John Wren | 2023 | $20,150,620 |
| SSNC | SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc. | William Stone | 2023 | $20,098,164 |
| CP | Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd/cn | Keith Creel | 2023 | $20,079,552 |
| HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co | Antonio Neri | 2023 | $20,066,549 |
| ON | ON Semiconductor Corp. | Hassane El-Khoury | 2023 | $19,965,513 |
| PNC | PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. | William Demchak | 2023 | $19,950,306 |
| HAL | Halliburton Co. | Jeffrey Miller | 2023 | $19,911,392 |
| DD | Dupont de Nemours, Inc. | Edward Breen | 2023 | $19,854,971 |
| LHX | L3Harris Technologies, Inc. | Christopher Kubasik | 2023 | $19,824,247 |
| PD | Pagerduty, Inc. | Jennifer Tejada | 2024 | $19,822,501 |
| COKE | Coca-Cola | Frank Harrison | 2023 | $19,781,000 |
| RLAY | Relay Therapeutics, Inc. | Sanjiv Patel | 2023 | $19,770,838 |
| UNM | Unum Group | Richard McKenney | 2023 | $19,727,222 |
| AMT | American Tower Corp | Thomas Bartlett | 2023 | $19,709,245 |
| BMY | Bristol Myers Squibb Co. | Giovanni Caforio | 2023 | $19,661,434 |
| SYNA | Synaptics Inc. | Michael Hurlston | 2023 | $19,577,634 |
| ENPH | Enphase Energy, Inc. | Badrinarayanan Kothandaraman | 2023 | $19,527,534 |
| SPGI | S&P Global Inc. | Douglas Peterson | 2023 | $19,506,412 |
| MLI | Mueller Industries Inc. | Gregory Christopher | 2023 | $19,464,383 |
| HPQ | HP Inc. | Enrique Lores | 2023 | $19,458,431 |
NOTE: For companies with more than one CEO during the year, the highest-paid CEO is included in the database. Pay ratio between CEO pay and median employee pay are displayed as disclosed by each company’s proxy statement. The CEO pay ratio may not equal the displayed CEO’s total compensation due to differing company methodologies in calculating pay ratios.
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