Who are the highest-paid CEOs in the world? Here are the 15 CEOs who earn the most.
Who are the highest-paid CEOs in the world?
CEO salaries continue to exceed — by far — worker pay around the world. Over the past 10 years, the money earned by CEOs of companies listed on the S&P 500 has increased by more than $5 million, reaching an average of $16.7 million in 2022.
So let’s take a look at the ranking of the highest-paid CEOs in the world.
The highest paid CEOs in the world: the ranking
According to the latest available data, updated to 2022, the highest-paid CEO was Stephen Schwarzman, at the helm of Blackstone Inc., one of the largest financial companies in the world. His annual salary? Over $253 million.
| Pos. | Ticker | Company | CEO | Year | Annual salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BX | Blackstone Inc. | Stephen Schwarzman | 2022 | $253,122,146 |
| 2 | GOOG | Alphabet Inc. | Sundar Pichai | 2022 | $225,985,145 |
| 3 | HTZ | Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. | Stephen Scherr | 2022 | $182,136,137 |
| 4 | PTON | Peloton Interactive, Inc. | Barry Mccarthy | 2022 | $168,073,420 |
| 5 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks Inc. | Nikesh Arora | 2023 | $151,425,203 |
| 6 | LYV | Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. | Michael Rapino | 2022 | $139,005,565 |
| 7 | SRPT | Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. | Doug Ingram | 2022 | $124,938,694 |
| 8 | PINS | Pinterest, Inc. | Bill Ready | 2022 | $122,651,735 |
| 9 | LAW | CS Disco, Inc. | Kiwi Camara | 2022 | $109,531,440 |
| 10 | WDAY | Workday, Inc. | Aneel Bhusri | 2023 | $102,685,309 |
| 11 | AAPL | Apple Inc. | Tim Cook | 2022 | $99,420,097 |
| 12 | S | Sentinelone, Inc. | Tomer Weingarten | 2022 | $95,395,534 |
| 13 | LAZR | Luminar Technologies, Inc. | Austin Russell | 2022 | $93,915,469 |
| 14 | DOCU | Docusign, Inc. | Allan Thygesen | 2023 | $85,035,380 |
| 15 | KKR | Kkr & Co. Inc. | Joseph Bae | 2022 | $79,999,836 |
Source: AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch database
1. Stephen Schwarzman
Stephen A. Schwarzman is President, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, one of the world’s largest alternative investment firms. Blackstone has over $1 trillion in assets under management (as of December 31, 2023).
Schwarzman has been involved in all phases of Blackstone’s development since its founding in 1985. The firm has investments across multiple asset classes, including private equity, where it is a global leader in traditional buyouts, growth equity, and real estate - it is currently the largest owner of commercial real estate in the world. But you will also find Blackstone in multi-asset investments in the credit sector, where it is a global leader and main provider of credit for companies of all sizes.
Schwarzman is currently the highest-paid CEO with a total compensation of over $253 million.
2. Sundar Pichai
Sundar is the CEO of Google and Alphabet and serves on Alphabet’s Board of Directors. Under his leadership, Google has focused on developing products and services, powered by the latest advances in artificial intelligence.
3. Stephen Scherr
Stephen Scherr is president and CEO of Hertz.
Before joining the firm in February 2022, Scherr spent nearly three decades at Goldman Sachs. He served as Chief Financial Officer from 2018 to 2021, during which time the company undertook considerable growth in its new and existing businesses. During his time at Goldman Sachs, Stephen led some of the firm’s most notable businesses, including serving as Chief Operating Officer of the Investment Banking division, global head of the Financials group, and leader of the firm’s consumer business.
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4. Barry McCarthy
Barry McCarthy is the CEO and President of Peloton. He served as CFO of Spotify from 2015 to January 2020 and as CFO of Netflix from 1999 to 2010. Before Netflix, McCarthy held various leadership positions in management consulting, investment banking, media, and entertainment.
5. Nikesh Arora
Nikesh Arora became president and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, an American multinational specializing in cybersecurity, in June 2018.
Before joining, Nikesh served as president and chief operating officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Previously, he held various positions at Google, Inc. for approximately 10 years, including senior vice president and chief business officer, president of sales operations global and business development and president of Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before joining Google, Nikesh served as chief marketing officer for Deutsche Telekom AG’s international T-Mobile division. He was CEO and founder of T-Motion PLC, which merged with T-Mobile International in 2002.
6. Michael Rapino
Michael Rapino is the president and CEO of Live Nation Entertainment and oversees the company’s three divisions: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Sponsorship. Since joining in 2005, Rapino has helped the company become a leader in live entertainment, issuing more than 500 million tickets and producing more than 35,000 live events annually. Rapino is also a member of the board of directors of Live Nation Entertainment.
7. Doug Ingram
Doug Ingram has been president, CEO, and board member since 2017 of Sarepta, a leader in precision genetic medicine to combat rare genetic diseases.
Ingram’s nearly 30-year career in the pharmaceutical-biotech world began at Allergan, where he joined in 1996, holding positions of increasing responsibility until being named President in 2013. When Allergan was acquired by Actavis in 2015, he moved to Chase Pharmaceuticals, serving as President and CEO before joining Sarepta.
8. William Ready
William Ready has been the CEO and director of the board of directors of Pinterest since June 29, 2022. He served as a Google manager from January 2020 to June 2022. Before joining Google, Ready served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of PayPal from October 2016 to July 2019 and continued to serve as executive vice president until December 2019.
From October 2011 to December 2013, he was CEO of Braintree, a mobile and web payment systems company acquired by PayPal.
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9. Kiwi Camara
Alejandro Danao Camara, aka Kiwi Camara, is a Filipino-American lawyer and businessman known for being the founder and former CEO of CS Disco.
He also represented defendant Jammie Thomas-Rasset in the first file-sharing copyright infringement lawsuit in the United States brought by major record labels. Camara resigned from CS Disco in September 2023 following allegations of sexual misconduct.
10. Aneel Bhusri
Aneel Bhusri is the co-founder and executive chairman of Workday and has been working in the enterprise software industry for over 25 years.
As Executive Chairman, Aneel serves as a strategic advisor to the CEO and other members of executive management, with a focus on innovation and the future direction of Workday’s applications and technology platform. Aneel, who co-founded Workday in 2005, served as the company’s co-CEO from 2009 to 2014 alongside co-founder Dave Duffield, CEO from 2014-2020 and co-CEO from 2020-2024. He has been a member of the board of directors since its foundation.
Original article published on Money.it Italy 2024-03-16 08:03:00. Original title: I 15 CEO più pagati al mondo. Il più ricco guadagna $252 milioni l’anno
