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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SKIN | Beauty Health Co | Andrew Stanleick | 2023 | $9,130,202 |
| AL | Air Lease Corp. | John Plueger | 2023 | $9,075,696 |
| QS | Quantumscape Corp. | Jagdeep Singh | 2023 | $8,965,314 |
| MXL | Maxlinear, Inc. | Kishore Seendripu | 2023 | $8,935,197 |
| MLNK | Meridianlink, Inc. | Nicolaas Vlok | 2023 | $8,922,005 |
| HTGC | Hercules Capital, Inc. | Scott Bluestein | 2023 | $8,891,994 |
| AKRO | Akero Therapeutics, Inc. | Andrew Cheng | 2023 | $8,834,907 |
| GOOG | Alphabet Inc. | Sundar Pichai | 2023 | $8,802,824 |
| ZUO | Zuora Inc. | Tien Tzuo | 2024 | $8,787,500 |
| PSA | Public Storage | Joseph Russell | 2023 | $8,776,291 |
| CYTK | Cytokinetics Inc. | Robert Blum | 2023 | $8,751,057 |
| EVC | Entravision Communications Corp. | Michael Christenson | 2023 | $8,681,912 |
| GKOS | Glaukos Corp. | Thomas W. Burns | 2023 | $8,654,684 |
| TDY | Teledyne Technologies Inc. | Robert Mehrabian | 2023 | $8,557,552 |
| BL | Blackline, Inc. | Therese Tucker | 2023 | $8,527,312 |
| RMBS | Rambus Inc. | Luc Seraphin | 2023 | $8,423,593 |
| FIGS | Figs, Inc. | Catherine Spear | 2023 | $8,388,335 |
| HPP | Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. | Victor Coleman | 2023 | $8,369,679 |
| EWBC | East West Bancorp Inc. | Dominic Ng | 2023 | $8,358,550 |
| TXG | 10x Genomics, Inc. | Serge Saxonov | 2023 | $8,286,049 |
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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