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How AP and Equilar calculated CEO pay

For its annual analysis of CEO pay, The Associated Press used data provided by Equilar, an executive data firm

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Median pay for CEOs rose nearly 6% in 2025, but some compensation packages were eye-popping

The typical CEO compensation package rose nearly 6% in 2025 to $17.7 million, as company boards rewarded their top executives for bigger profits and higher stock prices, and gave them incentives to stick around and make even more money for shareholders in the years ahead

AAP

Average CEO pay rises to $17.7 million as America’s wealth divide gets uglier

The Independent UK

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Here’s the Average Salary for an Executive in New York — How Does Your Salary Measure Up?

How much different is your salary to the average New Yotk executive? GOBankingRates breaks down the dollars and cents for you below.

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Meta executives could earn nearly $1 billion each if they hit goals in pursuit of a $9 trillion valuation

Moonshot compensation was once reserved for CEOs. Not anymore.

Fortune

If Every American Earned the Median CEO Salary, How Much Richer Would the Country Be?

Find out how much wealth the U.S. would gain if every American earned the median CEO salary and what this scenario reveals about income inequality.

GOBankingRates

If CEOs Took a 50% Pay Cut, How Much Would Workers Earn Instead?

CEO pay often surpasses employee wages. Would cutting down executive salaries really make a big difference? Explore the surprising math behind the gap.

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CEO pay rises again in the US as stocks and corporate profits soar

The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 10% in 2024 as the stock market enjoyed another banner year and corporate profits rose sharply

The Independent UK

This low-profile CEO is the highest-paid in America with a $101 million paycheck that beat out Starbucks, Microsoft, and Apple chiefs

Jim Anderson received more than $100 million in stock awards in 2024.

Fortune

As median pay for HR leaders hits more than $2 million, women are losing the pay race

Female CHROs earned about 27% less than males in the same role.

Fortune

Pat Gelsinger lost out on $140 million in potential performance pay as Intel's CEO—but he still earned $39 million over three years

When Intel hired Gelsinger in 2021 to revive the chipmaker’s fortunes, he received a pay package that would have been worth as much as $206 million if he had met performance targets.

Fortune

More CHROs are getting appointed to corporate boards—but rookies directors may have less luck

HR leaders are making gains in the boardroom.

Fortune

Who Are The Top CEOs With The Highest Pay In The US And One Who Caps His To 5X His Company's Lowest Salary?

Dr. Bronner's, the soap company known for fair practices, caps CEO pay at just 5 times the lowest worker's wage.

International Business Times UK

CEO Compensation Skyrockets While Workers’ Pay Barely Keeps Up

Executive total compensation surged nearly 13% in 2023, outpacing both inflation and worker pay increases.

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Shareholders OK With Soaring Executive Pay In US

Executive salaries at major US corporations are soaring -- but shareholders happy with stock prices and greater transparency over remuneration are not pushing back.

Fortune

Elon Musk could bring home $56 billion in historic pay package. His compensation completely dwarfs the biggest paydays in corporate American history

Other Fortune 500 CEOs don’t even make 1% of Musk’s proposed pay package.

The Independent UK

CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year

Even with Covid wage rises, the gap between the person in the corner office and everyone else keeps getting wider

The Independent UK

CEOs got hefty pay raises in 2023, widening the gap with the workers they oversee

The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at a time when inflation was putting considerable pressure on Americans’ budgets

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Al Jazeera

2023, the year of layoffs

Despite widespread layoffs few CEOs took meaningful pay cuts and could actually get raises in the year ahead.

The Independent UK

UAW justifies wage demands by pointing to CEO pay raises. So how high were they?

The United Auto Workers union has made CEO pay a central part of their argument for a big worker wage increase

Fortune

At 20 S&P 500 companies, the CFO earned 50% or more of what the CEO was paid in 2022

A Fortune analysis compares compensation numbers.

Fortune

There's less and less financial incentive to be CEO as other C-suite roles earn more and more money

While average CEO pay has skyrocketed over the past several years, the pay of other C-suite executives like CFOs, CHROs and general counsels has increased even more.

The Independent UK

Pay packages for female CEOs fell last year after big gains in 2021, ranks remain thin

Last year was a mixed bag pay-wise for the women who run companies in the S&P 500 -- compensation increased for more than half of them, but the median pay package fell 6%

The Independent UK

CEOs got smaller raises. It would still take a typical worker two lifetimes to make their annual pay

After ballooning for years, CEO pay growth is finally slowing

The Independent UK

Female CEO’s pay rose 26% in 2021, but ranks remain small

Pay packages for the women who run S&P 500 companies jumped in 2021 as the economy recovered and stock prices and profits soared

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