Insider has been analyzing how much CEOs and workers in the drug and biotech industries get paid. Using exclusive data from the company-intelligence firm MyLogIQ, Insider identified the 21 companies with the highest median employee pay for 2021. These 21 biotech and pharma companies all reported median employee pay of at least $350,000 last year….
Fifteen pharma and biotech CEOs made more than $25 million in 2021 according to data provided exclusively to Business Insider from the research firm MyLogIQ. 2021 was a boom time for pharma, with record levels of IPOs and funding. CEOs also took advantage, bringing in pay packages as high as $380 million for the year.
Using the CompanyIQ® executive compensation database, we examine executive pay, including a breakdown of equity and CEO pay ratios, in the biopharma industry. Specifically, we analyzed a CompanyIQ® dataset for fiscal year 2021 that included all Value Reporting Foundation (VRF, formerly Sustainability Accounting Standards Board—SASB) designated companies in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals industry within the…