The typical CEO compensation package rose nearly 6% in 2025 to $17.7 million, as company boards rewarded their top executives for growing profits and boosting returns for shareholders, and gave them incentives to stick around and keep the ball rolling in the years ahead.
At half the companies in the AP’s survey it would take the worker at the middle of the company’s pay scale 200 years to make what the CEO did in one, up from 192 years in last year’s survey.
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The Associated Press’ CEO compensation survey, which uses data analyzed for The AP by Equilar, included pay data for 337 executives at S&P 500 companies who have served at least two full consecutive fiscal years at their companies, which filed proxy statements between Jan. 1 and April 30.
