CEO Pay · Executive Compensation
What do America's top CEOs get paid?
A live tracker of executive compensation at U.S. public companies — who's paid the most, how each package breaks down between salary, stock, and incentive, and how the pay lines up with shareholder return.
Pay data as of
CEOs tracked
22,424
Companies
14,252
Years of history
1997–2026
Median CEO pay
$8.3M
latest year
$25M+ club
217
most recent proxy
The leaderboard
Highest-paid CEOs
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217
CEOs in the $25M+ club
The $25 million pay club keeps growing.
A record number of CEOs now clear $25 million in a single year — most of it in stock. We break down who made the list, and how each package is built, every year:
CEO pay trends
CEO pay has more than doubled since 2010.
One-time mega-grants (off scale): Musk '18 $2.28B · Karp '20 $1.10B · Field '25 $864M
Median and top-decile total pay for CEOs of U.S. Mid-, Large-, and Mega-cap companies. The latest year is still filling in as proxies are filed.
CEO pay by sector
Highest-paid CEO in every sector
Technology
Pay3-yr TSR
- 1Dylan Field$864.4M—Figma Inc · FIG
- 2Hock E Tan$205.3M+64.8%Broadcom Inc · AVGO
- 3Bipul Sinha$140.0M—Rubrik Inc · RBRK
Real Estate
Pay3-yr TSR
- 1Shankh Mitra$821.1M+42.8%Welltower Inc · WELL
- 2Kaz Nejatian$741.1M+2.0%Opendoor Technologies Inc · OPEN
- 3Greg Lehmkuhl$69.3M—Lineage Inc · LINE
Consumer Cyclical
Pay3-yr TSR
- 1Robert J Scaringe$402.6M-11.9%Rivian Automotive Inc · RIVN
- 2Niraj Shah$280.8M+8.3%Wayfair Inc · W
- 3Scott L Thompson$45.9M+20.8%Somnigroup International Inc · SGI
Healthcare
Pay3-yr TSR
- 1Maky Zanganeh$246.0M+88.5%Summit Therapeutics Inc · SMMT
- 2Peter P Gassner$172.4M-5.2%Veeva Systems Inc · VEEV
- 3Matthew Gline$163.3M+44.1%Roivant Sciences Ltd · ROIV
Financial Services
Pay3-yr TSR
- 1Asher Genoot$239.9M—Hut 8 Corp · HUT
- 2Stephen A Schwarzman$125.6M+9.5%Blackstone Inc · BX
- 3David M Solomon$118.1M+49.9%Goldman Sachs Group Inc · GS
Communication Services
Pay3-yr TSR
- 1David Zaslav$165.0M+27.7%Warner Bros Discovery Inc · WBD
- 2Ariel Emanuel$67.4M—Tko Group Holdings Inc · TKO
- 3David Ferris Ellison$63.2M-13.0%Paramount Skydance Corp · PSKY
Industrials
Pay3-yr TSR
- 1Jack Mallers$140.8M—Twenty One Capital Inc · XXI
- 2John C Plant$70.5M+76.3%Howmet Aerospace Inc · HWM
- 3H Lawrence Culp Jr$45.6M+60.0%Ge Aerospace · GE
Energy
Pay3-yr TSR
- 1James C Flores$75.9M-9.5%Sable Offshore Corp · SOC
- 2Michael Sabel$39.1M—Venture Global Inc · VG
- 3R Lane Riggs$34.2M+33.3%Valero Energy Corp · VLO
Consumer Defensive
Pay3-yr TSR
- 1Gregory M Hart$39.4M-25.3%Coursera Inc · COUR
- 2Donnie King$34.5M+6.5%Tyson Foods Inc · TSN
- 3James Quincey$31.2M+13.5%Coca Cola Co · KO
Utilities
Pay3-yr TSR
- 1William Fehrman$36.6M+20.1%American Electric Power Co Inc · AEP
- 2Jeffrey W Martin$22.2M+11.2%Sempra · SRE
- 3Lawrence S Coben$21.8M+56.9%Nrg Energy Inc · NRG
Basic Materials
Pay3-yr TSR
- 1Jean-Marc Germain$30.2M+22.2%Constellium Se · CSTM
- 2James H Litinsky$28.0M+31.9%Mp Materials Corp · MP
- 3David S Regnery$27.3M+36.3%Trane Technologies PLC · TT
Year over year
Biggest pay swings
Biggest spikes
- Shankh MitraWelltower Inc · WELL+$800.9M$20.2M → $821.1M
- Dylan FieldFigma Inc · FIG+$773.7M$90.7M → $864.4M
- Robert J ScaringeRivian Automotive Inc · RIVN+$387.7M$14.9M → $402.6M
- Asher GenootHut 8 Corp · HUT+$229.6M$10.3M → $239.9M
- Hock E TanBroadcom Inc · AVGO+$202.6M$2.6M → $205.3M
Biggest drops
- Brian R NiccolStarbucks Corp · SBUX−$64.8M$95.8M → $31.0M
- Ford TamerLattice Semiconductor Corp · LSCC−$67.4M$69.2M → $1.7M
- Robert AntokolPlaytika Holding Corp · PLTK−$78.3M$84.1M → $5.9M
- James R AndersonCoherent Corp · COHR−$97.8M$101.5M → $3.7M
- Patrick W SmithAxon Enterprise Inc · AXON−$164.5M$164.5M → $40K
Swings are frequently driven by one-time equity grants landing (or rolling off) in a single year, not changes to base salary.
Frequently asked
About this data
- Where does this compensation data come from?
- Every figure is drawn from companies' own SEC proxy statements — specifically the Summary Compensation Table each public company files ahead of its annual meeting. Boardroom Alpha extracts and structures 25+ years of these filings, broken down to salary, stock awards, option awards, and incentive pay, for tens of thousands of executives.
- How is “total pay” defined?
- Total pay is the total compensation figure as disclosed in the proxy Summary Compensation Table for the fiscal year — salary, bonus, stock and option awards, non-equity incentive, and other compensation. It reflects pay as reported (grant-date values), so a large one-time equity grant can lift a single year's total well above the recurring level.
- How often is this page updated?
- It refreshes as new proxy statements are filed — most land in the spring and summer ahead of annual meetings. Each company is shown at its most recently filed fiscal year, so the leaderboard and trends update through the season. The “data as of” stamp reflects the latest filing indexed.
- How is pay compared to performance?
- The 3-year return column is each company's annualized total shareholder return (share price plus dividends) over the CEO's recent tenure — so you can see, at a glance, whether a large package came with returns for shareholders. It is a return figure, not a proxy-advisor score; Boardroom Alpha is independent of the proxy advisors.
- Does this cover more than CEOs?
- This hub focuses on CEO pay, but the underlying dataset covers CFOs and other named executive officers too, plus say-on-pay vote outcomes and pay-versus-performance detail. Those are available through the Boardroom Alpha platform and API.
Sources & method. Compensation is total pay as disclosed in each company's SEC proxy statement (the Summary Compensation Table) — grant-date values, not realized take-home pay. Board grades (A–F) and total shareholder return are Boardroom Alpha's. Figures update as new proxies are filed. For information only; not investment advice.