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The highest-paid CEOs by state

Posted 5/25/18

Here are the top-paid CEOs by state for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm.

The survey considered only publicly traded companies with more than $1 …

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The highest-paid CEOs by state

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Here are the top-paid CEOs by state for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. The survey considered only publicly traded companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that filed their proxy statements with federal regulators between Jan. 1 and April 30. Not every state had a publicly traded company headquartered there that was large enough to be included. The survey includes only CEOs who have been in place for at least two years, but it does not limit the survey to companies in the S&P 500, as the AP's general compensation study does. To calculate CEO pay, Equilar adds salary, bonus, stock awards, stock option awards, deferred compensation and other components that include benefits and perks. For some companies, big raises can occur when CEOs get a stock grant in one year as part of a multi-year grant. The typical CEO in the Standard & Poor's 500 index made $11.7 million last year. ___ Alabama: O. B. Grayson Hall Jr., Regions Financial, $9.4 million (Hall is stepping down in July.) Arkansas: C. Douglas McMillon, Walmart, $22.8 million Arizona: Richard C. Adkerson, Freeport-McMoRan, $16.2 million California: Michael Rapino , Live Nation Entertainment, $70.6 million Colorado: Gregory B. Maffei, Liberty Media & Qurate Retail Group, $67.6 million Connecticut: Mark T. Bertolini, Aetna, $18.7 million Washington, D.C.: Thomas P. Joyce, Danaher, $14.8 million Delaware: Hervé Hoppenot, Incyte, $16.1 million Florida: Brian D. Jellison, Roper Technologies, $29.2 million Georgia: Frank J. Bisignano, First Data, $102.2 million Hawaii: Constance H. Lau, Hawaiian Electric Industries, $5.4 million Iowa: Daniel J. Houston, Principal Financial Group, $9.4 million Idaho: Thomas K. Corrick , Boise Cascade , $4.1 million Illinois: Debra A. Cafaro, Ventas, $25.3 million Indiana: N. Thomas Linebarger, Cummins, $13.2 million Kansas: Michael J. Brown, Euronet Worldwide, $3.9 million Kentucky: Scott L. Thompson, Tempur Sealy International, $18 million Louisiana: Glen F. Post III, CenturyLink, $14.3 million (Post retired at the company's annual meeting, which was on Wednesday.) Massachusetts: Stephen Kaufer, TripAdvisor, $43.2 million Maryland: David M. Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $42.2 million Maine: Melissa D. Smith, WEX, $10.8 million Michigan: Mary T. Barra, General Motors, $21.9 million Minnesota: James M. Cracchiolo, Ameriprise Financial, $22.4 million Missouri: Michael F. Neidorff, Centene, $25.3 million Mississippi: Joe F. Sanderson Jr., Sanderson Farms, $6.6 million North Carolina: Brian T. Moynihan, Bank of America, $21.4 million North Dakota: David L. Goodin, MDU Resources Group, $3.7 million Nebraska: Lance M. Fritz, Union Pacific, $11.3 million New Hampshire: Timothy McGrath, PC Connection, $1.6 million New Jersey: Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson, $23 million New Mexico: Patricia K. Collawn, PNM Resources, $4.4 million Nevada: Stephen A. Wynn, Wynn Resorts, $34.5 million (Wynn left the CEO position in February.) New York: Leslie Moonves, CBS, $68.4 million Ohio: W. Nicholas Howley, TransDigm Group, $61 million Oklahoma: Robert D. Lawler, Chesapeake Energy, $14.9 million Oregon: Bryan B. DeBoer, Lithia Motors, $5.9 million Pennsylvania: Brian L. Roberts, Comcast, $32.5 million Rhode Island: Scott C. Donnelly, Textron, $13.1 million South Carolina: John D. Williams, Domtar, $7 million South Dakota: David R. Emery, Black Hills, $3.4 million Tennessee: Mark J. Costa, Eastman Chemical, $14 million Texas: Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T, $25.6 million Utah: Harris H. Simmons, Zions, $3.2 million Virginia: Phebe N. Novakovic, General Dynamics, $21.2 million Washington: John J. Legere, T-Mobile US, $23.6 million Wisconsin: Jonas Prising, ManpowerGroup Inc., $12 million


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