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Small-Cap CEO Salary is $6.3M at the median ($3.2M–$9.0M typical) across 105 public companies in the $300M – $2B 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 $6.3M across 105 companies. Click any row for the cited company page.
Small-cap
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Market Cap
$2.0B
CEO compensation
$1.0MMarket Cap
$1.9B
CEO compensation
$7.2MMarket Cap
$1.9B
CEO compensation
$3.2MMarket Cap
$1.9B
CEO compensation
$6.5MMarket Cap
$1.9B
CEO compensation
$3.7MMarket Cap
$1.9B
CEO compensation
$7.2MMarket Cap
$1.9B
CEO compensation
$8.9MMarket Cap
$1.8B
CEO compensation
$8.3MMarket Cap
$1.8B
CEO compensation
$4.6MMarket Cap
$1.8B
CEO compensation
$9.9MMarket Cap
$1.8B
CEO compensation
$17.9MMarket Cap
$1.8B
CEO compensation
$10.5MMarket Cap
$1.8B
CEO compensation
$2.4MMarket Cap
$1.8B
CEO compensation
$6.0MMarket Cap
$1.8B
CEO compensation
$3.3MMarket Cap
$1.8B
CEO compensation
$7.4MMarket Cap
$1.8B
CEO compensation
$7.8MMarket Cap
$1.7B
CEO compensation
$39.5MMarket Cap
$1.7B
CEO compensation
$4.7MMarket Cap
$1.7B
CEO compensation
$10.5MMarket Cap
$1.7B
CEO compensation
$7.0MMarket Cap
$1.7B
CEO compensation
$7.5MMarket Cap
$1.6B
CEO compensation
$4.7MMarket Cap
$1.6B
CEO compensation
$9.1MMarket Cap
$1.6B
CEO compensation
$2.5M| LTC | LTC PROPERTIES INC Wendy L. Simpson | $2.0B | $1.0M | |
| WS | Worthington Steel, Inc. Geoffrey G. Gilmore | $1.9B | $7.2M | |
| PLAB | PHOTRONICS INC Frank Lee | $1.9B | $3.2M | |
| EPAC | ENERPAC TOOL GROUP CORP Paul E. Sternlieb | $1.9B | $6.5M | |
| NBHC | National Bank Holdings Corp G. Timothy Laney | $1.9B | $3.7M | |
| PRLB | Proto Labs Inc Suresh Krishna | $1.9B | $7.2M | |
| GNL | Global Net Lease, Inc. Edward M. Weil | $1.9B | $8.9M | |
| RUN | Sunrun Inc. Mary Powell | $1.8B | $8.3M | |
| CASH | PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. Brett L. Pharr | $1.8B | $4.6M | |
| PRG | PROG Holdings, Inc. Steven A. Michaels | $1.8B | $9.9M | |
| FUN | Six Flags Entertainment Corporation/NEW Richard A. Zimmerman | $1.8B | $17.9M | |
| BLFS | BIOLIFE SOLUTIONS INC Roderick De Greef | $1.8B | $10.5M | |
| STBA | S&T BANCORP INC Christopher J. McComish | $1.8B | $2.4M | |
| NVRI | Enviri Corp F. Nicholas Grasberger III | $1.8B | $6.0M | |
| INVX | Innovex International, Inc. Adam Anderson | $1.8B | $3.3M | |
| VRE | Veris Residential, Inc. Mahbod Nia | $1.8B | $7.4M | |
| FTRE | Fortrea Holdings Inc. Thomas Pike | $1.8B | $7.8M | |
| ASAN | Asana, Inc. Dan Rogers | $1.7B | $39.5M | |
| IIPR | Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. Paul Smithers | $1.7B | $4.7M | |
| PRGS | PROGRESS SOFTWARE CORP /MA Yogesh Gupta | $1.7B | $10.5M | |
| XHR | Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Marcel Verbaas | $1.7B | $7.0M | |
| OMCL | OMNICELL, INC. Randall A. Lipps | $1.7B | $7.5M | |
| HCSG | HEALTHCARE SERVICES GROUP INC Theodore Wahl | $1.6B | $4.7M | |
| SBH | Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. Denise A. Paulonis | $1.6B | $9.1M | |
| LKFN | LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP David M. Findlay | $1.6B | $2.5M |
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.
$17.9M
| Micro-cap(Under $300M) | $1.6M | 6 |
Small-cap CEO salary in this dataset is the small-cap median: $6.3M company-level total (typical range $3.2M–$9.0M), based on 105 companies ($300M – $2B).
CEOs at small-cap public companies ($300M – $2B) have a median company-level total of $6.3M. The middle half of the bracket falls between $3.2M–$9.0M. 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/small-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 105 in the small-cap bracket.