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Here Are The Highest Paid CEOs In 2024: Where Did Elon Musk, Warren Buffett Rank?

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Chief Executive Officer pay soared to new heights in 2024, with compensation packages for the top executives at America's largest companies reaching record levels. 

The median compensation for the highest-paid 100 CEOs in 2024, according to data from Equilar, reached $25.6 million, reflecting a 9.5% increase over the previous year.

A significant driver of this increase was the median value of stock awards, which jumped 40.5% year over year — from $13.2 million in 2023 to $18.6 million in 2024. In 2024, stock awards represented about 73% of the median total compensation for Equilar’s top 100 CEOs.

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Here are the top 10 S&P 500 CEO pay packages in 2024:

 Company           CEO       Total Pay In 2024

Coherent Corp. (NYSE:COHR) James Robert Anderson $ 101,497,009
Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ:SBUX) Brian Niccol $ 95,801,676
General Electric Company (NYSE:GE)   H. Lawrence Culp, Jr. $ 87,393,876
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) Satya Nadella $ 79,106,183
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Tim Cook  $ 74,609,802
Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE:CARR) David Gitlin $ 65,554,845
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:PANW) Nikesh Arora $ 58,036,875
Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) Shantanu Narayen $ 52,390,182
Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTNX) Rajiv Ramaswami $ 51,143,711
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) George Kurtz $ 46,983,855

One notable name missing from the list is NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang, who earned $49.9 million in total compensation, but was excluded because the company filed its proxy after Equilar's April 30 cutoff. 

Two well-known billionaires ranked near the bottom: Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK) and Elon Musk of Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA). 

Buffett received $405,000 in compensation, about five times the salary of the average Berkshire Hathaway employee. 

Musk was the lowest-paid S&P 500 CEO and received $0 in compensation from Tesla in 2024, as his $56 billion multiyear pay package from 2018 remains embroiled in a legal battle. 

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