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See how executive compensation scales with market cap. Enter any company size to find the typical CEO pay range.
Median CEO pay: $13.1M across 520 companies
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Mid-cap
$2B – $10B
Median CEO Pay
$8.7M
Based on 152 companies
Typical Range
$5.5M – $14.2M
25th to 75th percentile
Top-paid CEOs:
Data from SEC proxy filings (DEF 14A). Market caps from Yahoo Finance.
By Market Cap
From micro-caps to mega-caps, see how executive compensation scales with company size. Based on hundreds of public companies.
Under $300M
Median CEO Pay
$450K
Typical Range (25th–75th)
$407K – $2.6M
$300M – $2B
Median CEO Pay
$5.0M
Typical Range (25th–75th)
$2.6M – $10.4M
$2B – $10B
Median CEO Pay
$8.7M
Typical Range (25th–75th)
$5.5M – $14.2M
$10B – $200B
Median CEO Pay
$15.9M
Typical Range (25th–75th)
$9.3M – $23.2M
Over $200B
Median CEO Pay
$25.8M
Typical Range (25th–75th)
$18.8M – $31.2M
Full Dataset
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Compensation data is extracted from SEC proxy filings (DEF 14A), specifically the Summary Compensation Table. Market capitalization data is sourced from Yahoo Finance and reflects current market values (not filing-date values).
Companies are classified by market cap using standard industry brackets:
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CEO compensation varies significantly by company size. The CEO pay scale ranges from around $3–5M at micro- and small-cap companies to $15–25M+ at mega-caps, with the gap widening at each market cap tier. The majority of CEO compensation comes from stock awards and equity incentives, not base salary. See the bracket cards above for current median figures based on our dataset.
CEO total compensation includes: base salary, annual bonus, stock awards, option awards, non-equity incentive compensation, changes in pension value, and other compensation (perks, benefits, etc.). This is the 'Total' column from the SEC's Summary Compensation Table (SCT) in proxy filings. It represents the full economic value of the CEO's pay package for that fiscal year.
The CEO-to-worker pay ratio compares the CEO's total compensation to the median employee's total compensation. For example, a ratio of 200:1 means the CEO earns 200 times what the median employee earns. This ratio is required by the SEC for public companies and is disclosed in annual proxy filings (DEF 14A).
We classify companies by market capitalization (market cap), which is the total value of a company's outstanding shares. The standard brackets are: Micro-cap (under $300M), Small-cap ($300M-$2B), Mid-cap ($2B-$10B), Large-cap ($10B-$200B), and Mega-cap (over $200B). Market cap data is sourced from Yahoo Finance.
All compensation data comes from SEC filings, specifically the Summary Compensation Table in annual proxy statements (DEF 14A). We extract and normalize this data from official SEC EDGAR filings. Market cap data is sourced from Yahoo Finance and reflects current values.
Compensation data is updated as companies file their annual proxy statements, typically within 120 days after fiscal year end. Market cap data is refreshed hourly. The aggregated statistics on this page are cached for 1 hour.
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Search Companies| NVDA | $4.31T | $49.9M | |
| AAPL | $3.88T | $74.3M | |
| GOOGL | $3.77T | $10.7M | |
| GOOG | $3.76T | $10.7M | |
| MSFT | $2.92T | $96.5M | |
| AMZN | $2.25T | $23.6M | |
| META | $1.63T | $27.2M | |
| AVGO | $1.52T | $2.6M | |
| WMT | $1.02T | $27.0M | |
| LLY | $992.40B | $29.2M | |
| BRK-B | $693.47B | $305K | |
| XOM | $643.12B | $59.1M | |
| V | $630.68B | $31.6M | |
| JNJ | $598.69B | $24.3M | |
| ASML | $570.48B | $5.9M | |
| MA | $471.70B | $30.1M | |
| ONC | $456.01B | $20.8M | |
| COST | $448.66B | $13.9M | |
| ORCL | $417.75B | $6.5M | |
| ABBV | $410.17B | $24.1M | |
| NFLX | $406.34B | $61.9M | |
| VOD | $405.32B | $1.6M | |
| PG | $388.57B | $23.0M | |
| HD | $379.01B | $15.6M | |
| CVX | $376.05B | $32.7M |