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Much chart compares the various CEO pay reports
released in 2005. These cover the 2004 corporate fiscal
year. For pay reports on CEO compensation in 2006,
please check our
current top executive pay scorecard. For earlier comparisons, see
our Executive
Pay Scorecards for pay in 2005 and 2006. |
| Source |
Methodology |
Median CEO pay |
Annual increase
|
Worth noting |
USA
Today
March 30, 2005 |
Survey by eComp Data
Services covers 225 U.S. companies that had filed proxy
statements through March 25. Pay includes salary, bonus,
incentives, stock awards, stock-option gains, and "potential
returns from fresh option grants." |
$13.7 million |
25% |
Coach CEO Lew Frankfort reaped an $84
million windfall in 2004 exercising options he had received
in previous years and received new options in 2004 worth
over $130 million. |
New
York Times
April 3, 2005 |
Survey by Pearl Meyer &
Partners covers CEOs of 179 U.S. companies that had
filed by March 29 and not changed leaders since
last
year. Includes salary, bonus, value of restricted stock
and other long-term incentives. Does not include
the
value of options exercised. Does include value of new
option grants. |
$9.84 million |
12% |
Blockbuster CEO John F. Antioco took
home $7 million in salary and bonus in 2004, plus "5
million options and nearly $27 million worth of restricted
stock." Not bad for a CEO whose company lost $1.25
billion. |
Wall
Street Journal
April 11, 2005 |
Survey
by Mercer Human Resource Consulting covers CEOs of 350
U.S. companies with over $1 billion in revenue that
had filed by April 4. Pay includes salary, bonuses,
gains from option exercises, other long-term incentive
payouts, and the value of restricted shares at the time
of grant. |
$5.9 million |
40.9% |
Increase in 2004 pay for corporate
white-collar staff: 3.4% |
Business
Week
April 18, 2005 |
Survey covers CEOs
of 367 companies. New methodology this year does not
count windfalls from option exercises as part of the
annual pay package. Instead counts only the value of
annual option grants. Yahoo CEO Terry Semel realized
$230 million in option gains in 2003, but only credited
for $120 million for the year, a total that reflects
the new option grants he received in 2004. |
$9.6 million |
15% |
About 40 CEOs took home over $20 million,
even without including windfalls from the exercise of
stock options. Year's average worker pay: $33,176, up
2.9% from 2003. |
Forbes
May 9, 2005 |
Survey covers CEOs of "America's
500 biggest companies (as measured by a composite ranking
of sales, profits, assets and market value). Pay "includes
vested restricted stock grants and 'stock gains,' the
value realized from exercising stock options during
the just-concluded fiscal year." |
$10.2 million |
54% |
In 2004, 13 CEOs took home more than
$50 million. The top 100 CEOs for the year all made
over $13.3 million. |
| Bloomberg
May 11, 2005 |
Survey by compensation analyst Graef
Crystal covers CEOs of 501 corporations worth at least
$3 billion. The annual figure represents a three-year
average of the 2002, 2003, and 2004 fiscal years. Pay
includes salary and bonuses, restricted stock and stock
option awards, other forms of long-term incentive compensation
as well as miscellaneous pay sources. |
$5.4 million |
22% |
The 22% percent median pay increase
topped the 19.5% median return to shareholders in 2004
and the 2.7% average increase in worker wages for the
year. Inflation for the year jumped 3.1%. |
Corporate
Library
October 27, 2005 |
Survey covers
2,000 of the largest U.S. corporations and includes
data from proxies filed through June 2005. Pay figures
include stock option earnings. |
$5.74 million |
30% |
Some 27 CEOs saw their 2004 pay soar
over 1,000%, led by Lam Research CEO James
Bagley, whose pay rose 7,440% after cashing out $31
million
in stock option profits, and Advance Auto Parts CEO
Michael Coppola, who registered $42 million in
option profits for a 4,100% pay hike. |
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San
Jose Mercury News
May 23, 2005 |
Survey by consultants at Equilar looked
at pay data from 728 senior executives at 150 of
Silicon
Valley's largest companies. Pay includes salary, bonuses,
options gains, and other forms of compensation. |
$758,520 |
26%(Average pay for year, $2.9 million, up 57%.) |
The 728 execs in this Silicon Valley
survey collectively collected $2.1 billion in pay during
2004. Average pay for Silicon Valley workers down 1%
in 2004. |
Washington Post
June 27, 2005 |
Survey covered 764
top executives at 157 local
D.C. metro area companies
that
publicly report
pay and benefits.
Pay “includes salary and bonus, long-term benefits,
perks and the projected value of option grants.” |
$704,713 |
5% |
Median total pay for the 100 highest-paid
execs in the D.C. area: $5.25 million. The five best-paid
execs collectively took home $40.6 million in salary
and bonuses, “twice the budget of the D.C. public
library system.” |
Tampa Bay Business Journal
August 28, 2005 |
Survey of 25 highest-paid CEOs in the
Tampa Bay includes salary, bonus, and other compensation
such as perks, matching funds for a 401(k), and life
insurance premiums. Does not include stock options. |
$1,324,000 (average) |
34% |
The number of Tampa Bay area CEOs making
at least $2,000, without stock options, jumped from
one
to five. |
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