The Top 10 Highest Paid CEOs in America

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The median pay for S&P 500 CEOs soared to an all-time high of $15.7 million in 2023, as a strong stock market boosted executive compensation.

Some of the highest paid CEOs in America earned nine-figure pay packages, with the vast majority of CEO compensation tied to stock awards. Overall, executives in the index earned on average 196 times more than the median S&P 500 employee, up from 185 in 2022.

This graphic shows the top 10 highest paid CEOs of S&P 500 companies, based on analysis from The Wall Street Journal and MyLogIQ.

The Highest-Earning S&P 500 CEOs in 2023

Here are the S&P 500 chief executives who received the highest compensation packages last year:

RankCEOCompanyTotal PayCash PaySector 1Hock TanBroadcom $161.8M$1.2MTechnology 2Nikesh AroraPalo Alto Networks $151.4M$2.3MTechnology 3Stephen SchwarzmanBlackstone $119.8M$0.4MFinancial
Services 4Christopher WinfreyCharter
Communications $89.1M$5.2MCommunication
Services 5Will LansingFair Isaac$66.4M$2.0MTechnology 6Tim CookApple$63.2M$13.7MTechnology 7Hamid MoghadamPrologis$50.9M$1.9MReal Estate 8Theodore SarandosNetflix$49.8M$19.5MCommunication
Services 9David ZaslavWarner Bros.
Discovery$49.7M$25.0MCommunication
Services 10Glenn FogelBooking Holdings$46.7M$5.8MConsumer Cyclical

Total pay includes equity awards and cash pay.

Hock Tan, CEO of chipmaker Broadcom, tops the list, with an annual compensation of $161.8 million in 2023.

Like Nvidia, the company has benefited from surging demand for AI technologies. Broadcom supplies the networking chips used in data centers for big tech companies, including Microsoft. Between 2022 and 2023, Tan’s salary doubled, earning 510 times the median pay of employees.

Ranking in third is Stephen Schwarzman, who runs the biggest private equity firm in the world, Blackstone. The executive’s $119.8 million pay package was bolstered by a 83% rise in its share price last year. The firm is the world’s largest owner of commercial property, with approximately 12,500 real estate assets overall.

Meanwhile, Apple CEO Tim Cook received $63.2 million in 2023—a sharp decline from the $99.4 million earned in the prior year. This rare pay cut was the result of

Ranked: The World’s 50 Largest Private Equity Firms

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In 2023, private equity firms controlled $8.2 trillion in assets globally according to McKinsey & Company, a figure that has rapidly expanded since the industry first emerged 40 years ago.

As large investors such as pension funds and insurance companies increasingly look to private markets, these alternative asset managers have seen their assets grow by more than twofold in the last five years.

This graphic shows the top 50 private equity firms worldwide, based on data from Private Equity International (PEI).

The Top 50 Private Equity Firms

To determine the rankings, private equity firms were defined as those that raise capital with the purpose of directly investing in businesses, covering diversified private equity, venture capital, growth equity, buyouts, along with turnaround or control-oriented distressed investment capital.

The ranking does not include funds of funds, private investment in public equity (PIPE), or funds that follow a secondaries, real estate, infrastructure, hedge fund, debt or mezzanine strategies.

Below, we show the 50 biggest private equity companies around the world, measured by the scale of capital raised over the five-year period ending March 31, 2023:

RankingFund ManagerCityCapital Raised 1BlackstoneNew York$125.6B 2KKRNew York$103.7B 3EQTStockholm$101.7B 4Thoma BravoChicago$74.1B 5The Carlyle GroupWashington DC$69.7B 6TPGFort Worth$55.0B 7Advent InternationalBoston$52.9B 8HgLondon$51.0B 9General AtlanticNew York$48.7B 10Warburg PincusNew York$48.5B 11Silver LakeMenlo Park$48.3B 12Goldman SachsNew York$45.4B 13Bain CapitalBoston$44.3B 14Clearlake Capital GroupSanta Monica$44.0B 15CVC Capital PartnersLuxembourg$41.8B 16Vista Equity PartnersAustin$41.5B 17Clayton, Dubilier & RiceNew York$41.1B 18Hellman & FriedmanSan Francisco$40.9B 19Insight PartnersNew York$40.2B 20Leonard Green & PartnersLos Angeles$39.6B 21Permira AdvisersLondon$34.8B 22CinvenLondon$32.7B 23Brookfield Asset ManagementToronto$31.2B 24Nordic CapitalSaint Helier$31.1B 25Genstar CapitalSan Francisco$29.9B 26Francisco PartnersSan Francisco$28.3B 27Tiger Global ManagementNew York$28.3B 28Blue Owl CapitalNew York$27.2B 29Partners GroupZug$26.7B