Quick answer
Mid-Cap CEO Salary is $8.2M at the median ($5.5M–$11.7M typical) across 228 public companies in the $2B – $10B market-cap bracket. Figures are company-level totals from SEC proxy filings, drawn from a 1084-company snapshot. This page ranks by market cap, not revenue — see all brackets on CEO salary by company size or pay by sector on CEO salary by industry.
Company-level CEO compensation varies dramatically by company size. At mega-cap companies (over $200B market cap), the median company total is $32.5M. At large-cap companies ($10B–$200B), the median company total drops to $18.0M. All figures are median company-level totals from SEC proxy filings (DEF 14A) across 1084 public companies.
| Market Cap Bracket | Median CEO Pay (company total) | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Mega-cap(Over $200B) | $32.5M | 21 |
| Large-cap($10B – $200B) | $18.0M | 120 |
| Mid-cap($2B – $10B) | $8.2M | 228 |
| Small-cap($300M – $2B) | $6.3M | 105 |
Source: SEC DEF 14A proxy filings. Market cap from Yahoo Finance (updated hourly). Total compensation includes salary, bonuses, stock awards, option awards, and other compensation as reported in the Summary Compensation Table.
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Median $8.2M across 228 companies. Click any row for the cited company page.
Mid-cap
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Market Cap
$9.8B
CEO compensation
$14.2MMarket Cap
$9.7B
CEO compensation
$19.8MMarket Cap
$9.7B
CEO compensation
$16.1MMarket Cap
$9.6B
CEO compensation
$4.3MMarket Cap
$9.4B
CEO compensation
$25.7MMarket Cap
$8.9B
CEO compensation
$13.8MMarket Cap
$8.8B
CEO compensation
$4.7MMarket Cap
$8.8B
CEO compensation
$8.5MMarket Cap
$8.7B
CEO compensation
$11.5MMarket Cap
$8.6B
CEO compensation
$11.6MMarket Cap
$8.6B
CEO compensation
$7.8MMarket Cap
$8.6B
CEO compensation
$15.0MMarket Cap
$8.5B
CEO compensation
$13.9MMarket Cap
$8.5B
CEO compensation
$13.6MMarket Cap
$8.2B
CEO compensation
$12.9MMarket Cap
$8.1B
CEO compensation
$11.6MMarket Cap
$8.1B
CEO compensation
$13.6MMarket Cap
$8.1B
CEO compensation
$1.8MMarket Cap
$8.1B
CEO compensation
$14.2MMarket Cap
$7.9B
CEO compensation
$27.7MMarket Cap
$7.7B
CEO compensation
$6.6MMarket Cap
$7.5B
CEO compensation
$10.8MMarket Cap
$7.4B
CEO compensation
$15.3MMarket Cap
$7.3B
CEO compensation
$11.9MMarket Cap
$7.3B
CEO compensation
$8.0M| VSAT | VIASAT INC Mark Dankberg | $9.8B | $14.2M | |
| MASI | MASIMO CORP Catherine Szyman | $9.7B | $19.8M | |
| LEVI | LEVI STRAUSS & CO Michelle Gass | $9.7B | $16.1M | |
| SNAP | Snap Inc Evan Spiegel | $9.6B | $4.3M | |
| DOCU | DOCUSIGN, INC. Allan Thygesen | $9.4B | $25.7M | |
| BAH | Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp Horacio D. Rozanski | $8.9B | $13.8M | |
| BRKR | BRUKER CORPORATION Frank H. Laukien | $8.8B | $4.7M | |
| AOS | SMITH A O CORP Kevin J. Wheeler | $8.8B | $8.5M | |
| JXN | Jackson Financial Inc. Laura L. Prieskorn | $8.7B | $11.5M | |
| TTEK | TETRA TECH INC Dan Batrack | $8.6B | $11.6M | |
| IDCC | InterDigital, Inc. Liren Chen | $8.6B | $7.8M | |
| CIFR | Cipher Mining Inc. Rodney Tyler Page | $8.6B | $15.0M | |
| AAL | American Airlines Group Inc. Robert Isom | $8.5B | $13.9M | |
| HQY | HEALTHEQUITY, INC. Scott Cutler | $8.5B | $13.6M | |
| PTGX | Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc Dinesh V. Patel | $8.2B | $12.9M | |
| ZWS | Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corp Todd A. Adams | $8.1B | $11.6M | |
| QRVO | Qorvo, Inc. Robert A. Bruggeworth | $8.1B | $13.6M | |
| GME | GAMESTOP CORP. Ryan Cohen | $8.1B | $1.8M | |
| KMX | CARMAX INC William D. Nash | $8.1B | $14.2M | |
| APLD | Applied Digital Corp. Wes Cummins | $7.9B | $27.7M | |
| PNFP | Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. M. Terry Turner | $7.7B | $6.6M | |
| CRUS | CIRRUS LOGIC, INC. John M. Forsyth | $7.5B | $10.8M | |
| AVAV | AeroVironment Inc Wahid Nawabi | $7.4B | $15.3M | |
| NE | Noble Corp plc Robert W. Eifler | $7.3B | $11.9M | |
| JBTM | JBT MAREL Corp Brian A. Deck | $7.3B | $8.0M |
Compensation is extracted from the executive pay table in each company's SEC proxy filing. Market cap is current (not filing-date) and comes from Yahoo Finance. Medians use company-level totals so co-CEO years are not double-counted as two companies.
Companies with co-CEOs show the combined company-level total across every reported CEO.
Netskope Inc
$234.5M
* SEC-reported grant-date value; actual realized pay may be lower.
| Micro-cap(Under $300M) | $1.6M | 6 |
Mid-cap CEO salary in this dataset is the mid-cap median: $8.2M company-level total (typical range $5.5M–$11.7M), based on 228 companies ($2B – $10B).
CEOs at mid-cap public companies ($2B – $10B) have a median company-level total of $8.2M. The middle half of the bracket falls between $5.5M–$11.7M. These are grant-date totals from SEC proxy filings, not cash paychecks.
Median company CEO pay by market-cap bracket: Micro-cap $1.6M (n=6); Small-cap $6.3M (n=105); Mid-cap $8.2M (n=228); Large-cap $18.0M (n=120); Mega-cap $32.5M (n=21). Open /ceo-salary-by-company-size for the full table, or stay on /ceo-salary-by-company-size/mid-cap for this bracket.
Companies are grouped by market capitalization (share price times shares outstanding), not revenue. Market cap is the standard size benchmark because compensation committees typically design CEO pay around shareholder value.
Compensation comes from the executive pay table in each company's SEC proxy filing. This page summarizes 1084 public companies and isolates the 228 in the mid-cap bracket.