Of 23 Dow 30 companies whose payrolls were analyzed by MyLogIQ and curated by the Wall Street Journal, 15 posted median incomes above the $57,617 median U.S. income reported by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2016. Twelve reported figures that place their employees in the nation’s “upper income” bracket, according to a range defined by Pew Research Center.
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Want the Best CEO? Here’s How Much It Will Cost
Royal Dutch Shell shareholders are not too pleased about CEO Ben van Beurden’s 8.9 million euro (about $10.56 million) annual pay package, with advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) urging investors to reject the company’s executive compensation plan, while the Financial Times has reported that a top 20 shareholder will vote against the latest executive… Continue reading Want the Best CEO? Here’s How Much It Will Cost
CEO Pay and Performance Often Don’t Match Up
The best-paid CEOs don’t necessarily run the best-performing companies. Corporate boards have tried for years to tie chief executive compensation to the results they deliver. The better the company and its shareholders do, the more the top boss should be paid, or so the pay-for-performance mantra goes. In reality, CEO pay and performance often don’t… Continue reading CEO Pay and Performance Often Don’t Match Up
Median CEO Pay Reaches $12.1 Million—Here’s How Much the 5 Highest-Paid Leaders Earn
It pays to be a CEO. According to a Wall Street Journal analysis of 2017 pay for S&P 500 leaders, median pay reached $12.1 million. That’s “a new post-recession high,” the WSJ reports, and “most S&P 500 CEOs received raises of 9.7 percent or better last year.” Broadcom CEO Hock Tan topped the list of highest-paid leaders with… Continue reading Median CEO Pay Reaches $12.1 Million—Here’s How Much the 5 Highest-Paid Leaders Earn
CEO of Concert Firm Live Nation Got Paid Like a Rock Star in 2017
Michael Rapino, chief executive of Live Nation Entertainment Inc., earned more than $70 million last year, making him one of the highest-compensated executives in the U.S.—even though the concert company he runs isn’t big enough to rank in the S&P 500. The outsize pay package came amid a boom in the live-events business that Live Nation dominates. The… Continue reading CEO of Concert Firm Live Nation Got Paid Like a Rock Star in 2017
How Much Do CEOs Make?
Median pay reached $12.1 million for CEOs of the biggest U.S. companies in 2017, a new post-recession high, as profits and stock prices soared. Most S&P 500 CEOs received raises of 9.7% or better last year, according to a WSJ analysis of data from MyLogIQ. Scroll to see the highest-paid CEOs, and the lowest, as well as… Continue reading How Much Do CEOs Make?
CEO Pay for the S&P 500
WSJ ranking of 2017 CEO compensation and shareholder returns
At Google’s Parent Alphabet, Median Pay Nears $200,000
Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG 1.97% said its workers earned a median pay package of more than $197,000 last year, the fourth-highest pay among the hundreds of companies in the S&P 500 index that have disclosed those figures. Alphabet’s median pay was about 18% lower than at rival internet giant Facebook Inc., where employees earned a median salary of $240,000. The relatively high pay at two of the… Continue reading At Google’s Parent Alphabet, Median Pay Nears $200,000