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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OKE | Oneok Inc. | Pierce Norton II | 2023 | $9,547,574 |
| SFM | Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. | Jack Sinclair | 2023 | $9,513,410 |
| UPWK | Upwork, Inc. | Hayden Brown | 2023 | $9,508,141 |
| DLB | Dolby Laboratories, Inc. | Kevin Yeaman | 2023 | $9,504,201 |
| ODFL | Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. | Kevin M. Freeman | 2023 | $9,496,611 |
| APLT | Applied Therapeutics Inc. | Shoshana Shendelman | 2023 | $9,493,213 |
| PFGC | Performance Food Group Co | George Holm | 2023 | $9,487,543 |
| DIOD | Diodes Inc. | Keh-Shew Lu | 2023 | $9,483,816 |
| HOV | Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. | Ara Hovnanian | 2023 | $9,482,398 |
| AVB | Avalonbay Communities Inc. | Benjamin Schall | 2023 | $9,479,687 |
| SWAV | Shockwave Medical, Inc. | Doug Godshall | 2023 | $9,478,729 |
| ATEC | Alphatec Holdings, Inc. | Patrick Miles | 2023 | $9,477,979 |
| ALKS | Alkermes | Richard Pops | 2023 | $9,442,066 |
| AAP | Advance Auto Parts Inc. | Shane O Kelly | 2023 | $9,439,086 |
| THS | Treehouse Foods, Inc. | Steven Oakland | 2023 | $9,437,097 |
| PRM | Perimeter Solutions, | Haitham Khouri | 2023 | $9,422,241 |
| VTYX | Ventyx Biosciences, Inc. | Raju Mohan | 2023 | $9,411,949 |
| SLM | SLM Corp. | Jonathan Witter | 2023 | $9,399,485 |
| WST | West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. | Eric M. Green | 2023 | $9,395,896 |
| FITB | Fifth Third Bancorp | Timothy Spence | 2023 | $9,385,726 |
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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