It pays to be a CEO. According to a Wall Street Journal analysis of 2017 pay for S&P 500 leaders, median pay reached $12.1 million.
That’s “a new post-recession high,” the WSJ reports, and “most S&P 500 CEOs received raises of 9.7 percent or better last year.”
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan topped the list of highest-paid leaders with a total compensation package of $103.2 million. The next CEO on the list, Les Moonves of CBS, took home $69.3 million in 2017.
Here how much the five highest-paid CEOs of 2017 earned last year and the year before.
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