CEOs are those listed in SEC filings for 2014, the most recent year available for most companies. CEO Pay vs. Worker Pay In the table below, we show the ratio of CEO pay to median worker pay for companies listed in the S&P 500. The CEOs of the Fortune 500 are feeling increasingly cautious. For Richer or Poorer. According to Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) the average pay for a CEO in the S&P 500 grew from $11.5 million in 2013 to $13.6 million in 2017. The average salary for a Fortune 500 CEO for 2011 was $12.94 million. To begin, let’s look at the highest and lowest paid CEOs on the S&P 500, and their associated performance levels.
Total CEO compensation is from SEC filings, and median total worker compensation is based on Glassdoor salary reports. Pay packages of 25 Fortune 500 execs revealed A CIO's salary is nothing to sneeze at, but salary alone doesn't tell the whole compensation story. The highest-paid CEO of an S&P 500 company in 2018 earned $129.4 million, and the lowest earned $1, according to The Wall Street Journal's annual report. Relative to market is the ending value of $100 invested in the stock, divided by the ending value of $1 invested in the S&P 500 (a score of 100 = the S&P 500). Today’s infographic comes to us from HowMuch.net and it visualizes data on S&P 500 companies to see if there is any relationship between CEO pay and stock performance. The previous year the average salary was listed at only $11.4 million. According to Forbes, the average in 2004 was $10.9 million.