The CEO is the most powerful executive officer in an organization. In fact, the CEO is the highest-paid employee of a company. Usually, the CEO gets 25% of the company’s net profit as a salary. According to the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), the gap between the salary of CEOs and workers is 670-to-1. It means if the CEO gets $670 as salary then the worker will get $1.
State-wise Average Salary of CEO in the USA
| Name of the State | Average Salary |
| Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming | 212,000 USD 187,000 USD 224,000 USD 210,000 USD 241,000 USD 220,000 USD 215,000 USD 202,000 USD 199,000 USD 250,000 USD 248,000 USD 193,000 USD 195,000 USD 233,000 USD 224,000 USD 209,000 USD 211,000 USD 219,000 USD 221,000 USD 206,000 USD 234,000 USD 236,000 USD 224,000 USD 214,000 USD 203,000 USD 220,000 USD 196,000 USD 204,000 USD 211,000 USD 204,000 USD 239,000 USD 214,000 USD 252,000 USD 224,000 USD 184,000 USD 230,000 USD 211,000 USD 213,000 USD 239,000 USD 197,000 USD 223,000 USD 201,000 USD 236,000 USD 254,000 USD 218,000 USD 184,000 USD 226,000 USD 226,000 USD 202,000 USD 223,000 USD 191,000 USD |
Comparison between the Salary of CEOs and Workers in the USA (150 Companies)
| Company Name | CEO | Median Worker Annual Pay (Cash) | CEO Annual Pay (Cash) | Pay Ratio |
| CVS Health Corp CBS Corp Walt Disney CO/ TJX Companies Inc /DE/ Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. Comcast Corp L Brands, Inc. Honeywell International Inc Pepsico Inc Wynn Resorts Ltd Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co /OH/ Allergan Plc Viacom Inc. Cablevision Systems Corp /NY Liberty Media & Liberty Interactive Wal Mart Stores Inc Lennar Corp /NEW/ Time Warner Cable Inc. Starbucks Corp Amtrust Financial Services, Inc. General Electric Co Time Warner Inc. Ameriprise Financial Inc T-Mobile Us, Inc. Omnicom Group Inc Discovery Communications, Inc. Mylan N.V. Lockheed Martin Corp Wyndham Worldwide Corp Marathon Petroleum Corp Mgm Resorts International Centene Corp Halliburton Co Morgan Stanley Nike Inc AT&T Inc. Aramark Wells Fargo & Company/MN Charter Communications, Inc. /MO/ Lowes Companies Inc Deere & Co Caesars Entertainment Corp Prudential Financial Inc Universal Health Services Inc Coca Cola Co Interpublic Group Of Companies, Inc. Dow Chemical Co /DE/ Pnc Financial Services Group, Inc. Citigroup Inc HCA Holdings, Inc. Target Corp General Dynamics Corp Johnson Controls Inc Estee Lauder Companies Inc Metlife Inc Blackrock Inc Simon Property Group Inc /DE/ Eaton Corp Plc Goldman Sachs Group Inc JPMorgan Chase & Co Unitedhealth Group Inc Marsh & Mclennan Companies, Inc. Lifepoint Health, Inc. Allstate Corp Express Scripts Holding Co. Lear Corp Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. Mondelez International, Inc. IMS Health Holdings, Inc. General Motors Co Northern Trust Corp Johnson & Johnson Pfizer Inc Valero Energy Corp/TX Sherwin Williams Co Reynolds American Inc Procter & Gamble Co International Business Machines Corp Newell Rubbermaid Inc V F Corp Applied Materials Inc /DE Northrop Grumman Corp /DE/ Tenet Healthcare Corp Abbott Laboratories Chesapeake Energy Corp Cigna Corp Phillips 66 Verizon Communications Inc Baxter International Inc Ford Motor Co Aecom Cardinal Health Inc Schlumberger Ltd /NV/ Williams Sonoma Inc General Growth Properties, Inc. Ingersoll-Rand Plc Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Aon Plc Schwab Charles Corp Tesoro Corp /NEW/ Borgwarner Inc Delta Air Lines Inc /DE/ Nextera Energy Inc Nasdaq, Inc. 3M Co Exxon Mobil Corp Lyondellbasell Industries N.V. Texas Instruments Inc Mastercard Inc Lilly Eli & Co Gilead Sciences Inc Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc Salesforce Com Inc Motorola Solutions, Inc. Abbvie Inc. Bank Of New York Mellon Corp Air Products & Chemicals Inc /DE/ American International Group Inc Amgen Inc Raytheon CO/ Bristol Myers Squibb Co Anthem, Inc. Equifax Inc Hertz Global Holdings Inc Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc Merck & Co. Inc. Whirlpool Corp /DE/ Aetna Inc /PA/ ConocoPhillips Accenture Plc Alcoa Inc Intel Corp Baker Hughes Inc International Paper Co /NEW/ Microsoft Corp Cisco Systems, Inc. Emerson Electric Co HP Inc Prologis, Inc. Chevron Corp Tempur Sealy International, Inc. Fluor Corp Exelon Corp Biogen Inc. FNIS, Inc. Caterpillar Inc Avon Products Inc Expedia, Inc. Paypal Holdings, Inc. Capital One Financial Corp eBay Inc Bank Of America Corp /DE/ American Express Co Waters Corp /DE/ Ashland Inc. Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc Keysight Technologies, Inc. Adobe Systems Inc Intuit Inc Linkedin Corp Vmware, Inc. Groupon, Inc. Citrix Systems Inc Yahoo Inc HRG Group Oracle Corp Oracle Corp Servicenow, Inc. | Larry J. Merlo Leslie Moonves Robert A. Iger Carol Meyrowitz K. Rupert Murdoch Brian L. Roberts Leslie H. Wexner David M. Cote Indra K. Nooyi Stephen A. Wynn Richard J. Kramer Brenton L. Saunders Philippe P. Dauman James L. Dolan Gregory B. Maffei C. Douglas McMillon Stuart A. Miller Robert D. Marcus Howard Schultz Barry Zyskind Jeffrey R. Immelt Jeffrey L. Bewkes James M. Cracchiolo John J. Legere John D. Wren David M. Zaslav Heather Bresch Marilyn A. Hewson Stephen P. Holmes Gary R. Heminger James J. Murren Michael F. Neidorff David J. Lesar James P. Gorman Mark G. Parker Randall L. Stephenson Eric J. Foss John G. Stumpf Thomas M. Rutledge Robert A. Niblock Samuel R. Allen Mark Frissora John R. Strangfeld Alan B. Miller Muhtar Kent Michael I. Roth Andrew N. Liveris William S. Demchak Michael L. Corbat R. Milton Johnson Brian C. Cornell Phebe N. Novakovic Alex A. Molinaroli Fabrizio Freda Steven A. Kandarian Laurence D. Fink David Simon Alexander M. Cutler Lloyd C. Blankfein James Dimon Stephen J. Hemsley Daniel S. Glaser William F. Carpenter Thomas J. Wilson George Paz Matthew J. Simoncini Mary N. Dillon Irene B. Rosenfeld Ari Bousbib Mary T. Barra Frederick H. Waddell Alex Gorsky Ian C. Read Joseph W. Gorder Christopher M. Connor Susan M. Cameron Alan G. Lafley Virginia M. Rometty Michael B. Polk Eric C. Wiseman Gary E. Dickerson Wesley G. Bush Trevor Fetter Miles D. White Robert D. Lawler David M. Cordani Greg C. Garland Lowell C. McAdam Robert L. Parkinson Mark Fields Michael S. Burke George S. Barrett Paal Kibsgaard Laura J. Alber Sandeep Mathrani Michael W. Lamach Marc N. Casper Gregory C. Case Walter W. Bettinger Gregory J. Goff James R. Verrier Richard H. Anderson James L. Robo Robert Greifeld Inge G. Thulin Rex W. Tillerson Bhavesh V. Patel Richard K. Templeton Ajay Banga John C. Lechleiter John C. Martin Steve Ells Marc Benioff Gregory Q. Brown Richard A. Gonzalez Gerald L. Hassell Seifi Ghasemi Peter D. Hancock Robert A. Bradway Thomas A. Kennedy Giovanni Caforio Joseph R. Swedish Richard F. Smith John P. Tague Leonard S. Schleifer Kenneth C. Frazier Jeff M. Fettig Mark T. Bertolini Ryan M. Lance Pierre Nanterme Klaus Kleinfeld Brian M. Krzanich Martin S. Craighead Mark S. Sutton Satya Nadella John T. Chambers David N. Farr Margaret C. Whitman Hamid R. Moghadam John S. Watson Scott L. Thompson David T. Seaton Christopher M. Crane George A. Scangos Gary A. Norcross Douglas R. Oberhelman Sherilyn S. McCoy Dara Khosrowshahi Daniel H. Schulman Richard D. Fairbank Devin N. Wenig Brian T. Moynihan Kenneth I. Chenault Christopher J. O’Connell William A. Wulfsohn David Hallal Ronald S. Nersesian Shantanu Narayen Brad D. Smith Jeffrey Weiner Patrick P. Gelsinger Rich Williams Robert M. Calderoni Marissa A. Mayer Omar M. Asali Mark V. Hurd Safra A. Catz Frank Slootman | $27,900 $59,900 $71,400 $22,400 $54,800 $55,800 $33,900 $81,600 $61,500 $50,100 $54,700 $92,900 $79,400 $62,000 $51,100 $24,600 $61,700 $51,700 $28,000 $53,800 $86,400 $78,200 $50,100 $60,700 $84,300 $68,100 $77,100 $76,200 $51,100 $44,800 $49,600 $60,100 $71,500 $80,100 $80,100 $59,400 $42,300 $52,600 $49,300 $33,100 $60,700 $44,300 $84,200 $54,600 $59,900 $65,500 $76,600 $50,400 $80,200 $56,100 $35,600 $68,800 $68,900 $69,600 $64,600 $103,000 $50,700 $72,000 $93,100 $77,200 $56,100 $66,100 $45,100 $48,400 $53,600 $64,500 $36,100 $71,000 $84,600 $65,700 $78,600 $73,700 $83,700 $69,000 $50,700 $67,500 $76,800 $91,200 $65,300 $50,900 $98,400 $79,000 $59,700 $86,800 $65,000 $62,100 $90,900 $89,500 $74,900 $81,600 $68,200 $58,900 $80,300 $60,700 $64,100 $58,100 $74,900 $65,500 $77,300 $93,300 $85,300 $69,600 $77,900 $87,700 $74,600 $101,000 $95,100 $88,100 $86,900 $90,200 $102,000 $31,900 $109,000 $99,800 $96,700 $65,900 $82,800 $77,900 $111,000 $88,100 $97,700 $60,800 $89,000 $55,400 $80,400 $103,000 $67,800 $63,500 $91,600 $83,000 $71,100 $101,000 $84,300 $65,300 $120,000 $110,000 $76,800 $92,900 $76,200 $107,000 $56,800 $85,900 $91,300 $91,700 $61,400 $70,600 $76,000 $95,300 $120,000 $82,600 $111,000 $59,200 $87,800 $72,100 $72,900 $103,000 $87,000 $111,000 $111,000 $123,000 $133,000 $93,800 $96,000 $117,000 $70,500 $109,000 $109,000 $106,000 | $12,105,481 $23,652,883 $26,208,003 $7,330,584 $17,047,636 $16,819,942 $9,665,925 $22,767,851 $15,937,828 $11,930,391 $12,779,784 $21,565,325 $18,263,525 $13,649,028 $10,947,607 $5,133,256 $12,813,693 $10,699,868 $5,722,076 $10,942,190 $17,434,376 $15,610,633 $9,901,300 $10,782,502 $13,496,047 $10,614,934 $11,662,799 $11,200,254 $7,472,307 $6,475,770 $7,021,948 $8,423,903 $9,601,126 $10,716,160 $10,527,902 $7,794,762 $5,546,823 $6,818,550 $6,362,036 $4,210,444 $7,497,246 $5,498,830 $10,239,654 $6,373,857 $6,855,126 $7,353,809 $8,266,471 $5,365,501 $8,102,293 $5,604,403 $3,523,379 $6,712,056 $6,673,127 $6,712,713 $6,198,909 $9,813,000 $4,763,433 $6,712,626 $8,677,074 $7,121,060 $5,167,679 $5,962,629 $3,978,339 $4,141,613 $4,585,587 $5,462,553 $3,072,861 $5,942,252 $6,918,921 $5,409,618 $6,295,430 $5,825,173 $6,546,786 $5,412,411 $3,930,460 $5,221,409 $5,878,831 $6,916,621 $4,937,229 $3,797,052 $7,274,434 $5,795,604 $4,337,399 $6,291,506 $4,667,985 $4,402,567 $6,345,942 $6,260,503 $5,182,349 $5,585,451 $4,613,141 $3,965,740 $5,324,780 $3,995,468 $4,247,574 $3,789,098 $4,796,641 $4,183,138 $4,837,373 $5,744,847 $5,306,064 $4,341,800 $4,788,297 $5,279,180 $4,501,972 $5,973,291 $5,585,273 $5,111,829 $5,038,598 $5,212,500 $5,773,448 $1,807,858 $6,099,882 $5,522,415 $5,355,524 $3,592,696 $4,504,385 $4,206,756 $5,897,755 $4,649,884 $5,196,537 $3,204,651 $4,607,203 $2,889,915 $4,154,608 $5,185,472 $3,423,169 $3,146,391 $4,525,946 $4,079,922 $3,488,962 $4,834,500 $3,946,478 $3,054,492 $5,533,007 $5,111,700 $3,539,613 $4,250,761 $3,362,854 $4,550,760 $2,458,105 $3,486,387 $3,677,639 $3,674,430 $2,429,544 $2,820,956 $2,930,567 $3,757,950 $4,081,706 $2,821,789 $3,653,210 $1,931,776 $2,785,433 $2,232,523 $2,174,509 $2,887,626 $2,174,201 $2,505,776 $2,466,500 $2,597,243 $2,454,879 $1,655,464 $1,377,185 $1,549,836 $721,000 $972,253 $970,795 $642,133 | 434:1 395:1 367:1 327:1 311:1 301:1 285:1 279:1 259:1 238:1 234:1 232:1 230:1 220:1 214:1 209:1 208:1 207:1 204:1 203:1 202:1 200:1 198:1 178:1 160:1 156:1 151:1 147:1 146:1 145:1 142:1 140:1 134:1 134:1 131:1 131:1 131:1 130:1 129:1 127:1 124:1 124:1 122:1 117:1 114:1 112:1 108:1 106:1 101:1 100:1 99:1 98:1 97:1 96:1 96:1 95:1 94:1 93:1 93:1 92:1 92:1 90:1 88:1 86:1 86:1 85:1 85:1 84:1 82:1 82:1 80:1 79:1 78:1 78:1 78:1 77:1 77:1 76:1 76:1 75:1 74:1 73:1 73:1 72:1 72:1 71:1 70:1 70:1 69:1 68:1 68:1 67:1 66:1 66:1 66:1 65:1 64:1 64:1 63:1 62:1 62:1 62:1 61:1 60:1 60:1 59:1 59:1 58:1 58:1 58:1 57:1 57:1 56:1 55:1 55:1 55:1 54:1 54:1 53:1 53:1 53:1 53:1 52:1 52:1 52:1 50:1 50:1 50:1 49:1 49:1 49:1 48:1 47:1 47:1 46:1 46:1 46:1 46:1 44:1 43:1 43:1 41:1 40:1 40:1 40:1 40:1 39:1 39:1 34:1 34:1 33:1 33:1 32:1 31:1 30:1 28:1 25:1 23:1 22:1 21:1 18:1 18:1 14:1 13:1 10:1 9:1 9:1 6:1 |
FAQs about On Average What Percentage of a Company’s Total Revenue is given to the CEO as a Salary
What is Compensation for CEOs?
When the company does very well, the CEO receive a bonus and it is known as compensation for the CEO. Usually, this type of compensation is made up of three components:
- Salary
- Bonus
- Equity-based compensation (stock options, performance shares, etc.)
Who is the highest compensated CEO?
Some of the highest compensated CEOs are –
- Elon Musk, Tesla: $23.5 billion
- Tim Cook, Apple: $770.5 million
- Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, $561 million
- Reed Hastings, Netflix: $453.5 million
- Leonard Schleifer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals: $452.9 million
What percent of revenue goes to the owner?
The answer to this question varies from one company to another. However, according to many financial experts, 30% is the safe point for a company. So, it means the owner can take 30% of the revenue of the company.
What is executive compensation?
Executive compensation is a type of salary package usually made for CEOs, business leaders, Directors, members of the management, etc. Generally, executive compensations are made up of salaries, bonuses, perks, insurance, etc.
References:
http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=229&loctype=1&job=309&jobtype=3