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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOLT | Bolt Biotherapeutics, Inc. | Randall Schatzman | 2023 | $1,750,629 |
| PSNL | Personalis, Inc. | Christopher Hall | 2023 | $1,726,790 |
| DMTK | Dermtech, Inc. | Bret Christensen | 2023 | $1,715,102 |
| BE | Bloom Energy Corp. | KR Sridhar | 2023 | $1,704,008 |
| MCY | Mercury General Corp. | Gabriel Tirador | 2023 | $1,698,348 |
| OPRT | Oportun Financial Corp. | Raul Vazquez | 2023 | $1,694,535 |
| DYNS | Senti Biosciences, Inc. | Timothy Lu | 2023 | $1,686,498 |
| DOMA | Doma Holdings, Inc. | Max Simkoff | 2023 | $1,655,932 |
| AEHR | Aehr Test Systems | Gayn Erickson | 2023 | $1,652,788 |
| ONCT | Oncternal Therapeutics, Inc. | James Breitmeyer | 2023 | $1,623,074 |
| WLDN | Willdan Group, Inc. | Thomas Brisbin | 2023 | $1,577,003 |
| OMIC | Singular Genomics Systems, Inc. | Andrew Spaventa | 2023 | $1,567,091 |
| CDTX | Cidara Therapeutics, Inc. | Jeffrey Stein | 2023 | $1,558,544 |
| CRDF | Cardiff Oncology, Inc. | Mark Erlander | 2023 | $1,547,772 |
| ADVM | Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. | Laurent Fischer | 2023 | $1,546,477 |
| DBX | Dropbox, Inc. | Andrew Houston | 2023 | $1,539,577 |
| GTBP | GT Biopharma, Inc. | Michael Breen | 2023 | $1,525,834 |
| BSRR | Sierra Bancorp | Kevin J. McPhaill | 2023 | $1,516,515 |
| INTG | Intergroup Corp. | John Winfield | 2023 | $1,497,000 |
| HTBK | Heritage Commerce Corp. | Robertson Clay Jones | 2023 | $1,481,891 |
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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