The Highest Paid CEOs of 2023
The chiefs of America’s biggest companies reached new pay heights in 2023 as stock awards swelled the value of compensation packages.
Half of the executives in a Wall Street Journal analysis made at least $15.7 million, a record for median CEO pay in the annual survey, with several making more than $50 million. Median pay for the same companies a year earlier was about $14.5 million.
…Most of the executives received year-over-year raises of at least 9%—one in four got 25% or more—and most companies recorded annual shareholder returns of at least 13%, the Journal found in an analysis of data on more than 400 companies from MyLogIQ, a provider of public-company data and analysis.
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