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California CEOs and their millions
This table shows how much the chief executives of California’s largest public companies (based on revenue) were paid in their last fiscal year. The CEOs are ranked by total pay, which consists of cash pay (including salary and bonus), stock and stock options, and other pay, which can include deferred compensation and such items as company-paid life insurance and the cost of an executive’s personal trips on a company jet.
| Company | CEO | Cash pay (millions) | Value of stock and options received (millions) | Other pay (millions) | Total pay (millions) | Change from prior year (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chevron | John S. Watson | $4.50 | $9.30 | $2.50 | $16.30 | N/A |
| Hewlett-Packard | Catherine A. Lesjak | $4.10 | $3.50 | $0.50 | $8.10 | N/A |
| McKesson | John H. Hammergren | $14.40 | $18.70 | $21.50 | $54.60 | +47% |
| Apple | Steven P. Jobs | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | 0% |
| Wells Fargo | John G. Stumpf | $6.50 | $11.00 | $1.40 | $19.00 | -11% |
| Intel | Paul S. Otellini | $7.80 | $7.30 | $0.50 | $15.70 | +7% |
| Safeway | Steven A. Burd | $2.20 | $7.50 | $1.30 | $11.00 | +1% |
| Cisco Systems | John T. Chambers | $5.00 | $13.90 | $0.00 | $18.90 | +106% |
| Disney | Robert A. Iger | $15.50 | $11.80 | $2.40 | $29.60 | +24% |
| Northrop Grumman | Wesley G. Bush | $4.40 | $15.50 | $3.00 | $22.80 | N/A |
| Ingram Micro | Gregory M. E. Spierkel | $3.00 | $3.40 | $0.00 | $6.40 | -19% |
| Eric E. Schmidt | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.30 | $0.30 | +28% | |
| Oracle | Lawrence J. Ellison | $6.70 | $61.90 | $1.50 | $70.10 | -17% |
| DirecTV | Michael D. White | $5.40 | $27.20 | $0.30 | $32.90 | N/A |
| Occidental Petroleum | Ray R. Irani | $34.20 | $40.30 | $1.70 | $76.10 | +142% |
| Amgen | Kevin W. Sharer | $5.40 | $15.00 | $0.80 | $21.10 | +38% |
| Gap | Glenn K. Murphy | $3.90 | $1.80 | $0.30 | $5.90 | +18% |
| PG&E | Peter A. Darbee | $1.20 | $5.00 | $2.20 | $8.40 | -21% |
| Health Net | Jay M. Gellert | $2.40 | $3.40 | $1.90 | $7.70 | +110% |
| Edison International | Theodore F. Craver, Jr. | $2.70 | $4.50 | $2.30 | $9.50 | +41% |
| Qualcomm | Paul E. Jacobs | $4.50 | $12.40 | $0.70 | $17.60 | +1% |
| Jacobs Engineering Group | Craig L. Martin | $1.80 | $4.50 | $0.00 | $6.40 | +38% |
| Western Digital | John F. Coyne | $4.50 | $2.60 | $0.00 | $7.00 | +3% |
| Applied Materials | Michael R. Splinter | $4.40 | $5.40 | $0.00 | $9.70 | +215% |
| URS | Martin M. Koffel | $2.90 | $2.50 | $1.40 | $6.70 | +2% |
| eBay | John J. Donahoe | $2.80 | $9.30 | $0.20 | $12.40 | +22% |
| Sempra Energy | Donald E. Felsinger | $3.40 | $4.90 | $1.90 | $10.20 | -51% |
| Synnex | Kevin M. Murai | $2.10 | $1.20 | $0.00 | $3.40 | +16% |
| Visa | Joseph W. Saunders | $5.20 | $6.70 | $1.00 | $12.90 | -2% |
| Gilead Sciences | John C. Martin | $3.70 | $10.60 | $0.00 | $14.20 | -3% |
| Ross Stores | Michael A. Balmuth | $3.50 | $7.80 | $0.40 | $11.70 | +10% |
| Core-Mark | J. Michael Walsh | $0.70 | $0.30 | $0.00 | $1.00 | -22% |
| Dole Food | David A. DeLorenzo | $3.80 | $1.50 | $0.30 | $5.60 | -34% |
| Broadcom | Scott A. McGregor | $2.20 | $6.80 | $0.00 | $9.00 | -12% |
| AECOM Technology | John M. Dionisio | $4.00 | $5.00 | $0.40 | $9.40 | +21% |
| Avery Dennison | Dean A. Scarborough | $3.10 | $4.80 | $4.20 | $12.10 | +51% |
| AMD | Derrick R. Meyer | $0.90 | $4.60 | $0.00 | $5.50 | +22% |
| Yahoo! | Carol A. Bartz | $3.20 | $8.70 | $0.00 | $11.90 | N/A |
| Sanmina-SCI | Jure Sola | $2.20 | $5.20 | $0.10 | $7.50 | +571% |
| Reliance Steel & Aluminum | David H. Hannah | $1.20 | $2.90 | $1.20 | $5.30 | +64% |
| Spectrum Group International | Gregory N. Roberts | $1.60 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $1.60 | -47% |
| Symantec | Enrique T. Salem | $3.70 | $5.30 | $0.00 | $9.00 | N/A |
| Mattel | Robert A. Eckert | $4.50 | $6.00 | $1.00 | $11.40 | +3% |
| Franklin Resources | Gregory E. Johnson | $3.40 | $2.60 | $0.70 | $6.70 | +50% |
| Clorox | Donald R. Knauss | $3.00 | $5.00 | $2.10 | $10.10 | +23% |
| Agilent Technologies | William P. Sullivan | $3.50 | $6.90 | $0.00 | $10.40 | +38% |
| CB Richard Ellis Group | W. Brett White | $4.00 | $7.50 | $0.00 | $11.50 | +60% |
| Live Nation Entertainment | Michael Rapino | $8.80 | $7.00 | $0.10 | $15.90 | +138% |
| Con-way | Douglas W. Stotlar | $0.90 | $2.50 | $0.40 | $3.70 | +9% |
| Allergan | David E. I. Pyott | $3.00 | $8.10 | $1.60 | $12.60 | +5% |
| SanDisk | Eliyahou Harari | $3.30 | $5.00 | $0.10 | $8.40 | +106% |
| Activision Blizzard | Robert A. Kotick | $3.20 | $1.90 | $0.50 | $5.60 | +78% |
| Charles Schwab | Walter W. Bettinger | $3.30 | $6.70 | $0.10 | $10.00 | 0% |
| Juniper Networks | Kevin R. Johnson | $4.40 | $5.50 | $0.10 | $10.00 | +29% |
| Molina Healthcare | J. Mario Molina | $2.80 | $0.30 | $0.60 | $3.80 | +102% |
| NetApp | Thomas Georgens | $2.80 | $9.70 | $0.00 | $12.50 | N/A |
| CareFusion | David L. Schlotterbeck | $3.40 | $12.80 | $0.20 | $16.30 | N/A |
| First American Financial | Dennis J. Gilmore | $2.20 | $3.50 | $0.50 | $6.30 | N/A |
| Adobe Systems | Shantanu Narayen | $3.10 | $9.20 | $0.00 | $12.20 | +143% |
| Del Monte Foods | Richard G. Wolford | $3.40 | $4.10 | $1.40 | $8.90 | +27% |
| Beckman Coulter | James R. Hurley | $0.50 | $0.60 | $0.10 | $1.20 | N/A |
| Electronic Arts | John S. Riccitiello | $1.50 | $8.30 | $0.00 | $9.80 | +119% |
| Life Technologies | Gregory T. Lucier | $4.00 | $7.30 | $0.20 | $11.50 | +155% |
| Watson Pharmaceuticals | Paul M. Bisaro | $2.50 | $3.10 | $0.00 | $5.60 | +31% |
| NVIDIA | Jen-Hsun Huang | $2.00 | $3.30 | $0.00 | $5.30 | +52% |
| Williams-Sonoma | Laura J. Alber | $3.70 | $9.80 | $0.10 | $13.60 | N/A |
| Intuit | Brad D. Smith | $2.20 | $11.60 | $0.10 | $13.90 | +274% |
| Tutor Perini | Ronald N. Tutor | $4.10 | $4.50 | $0.30 | $9.00 | -24% |
| Robert Half International | Harold M. Messmer, Jr. | $2.00 | $6.60 | $1.00 | $9.60 | +36% |
| VMware | Paul A. Maritz | $1.60 | $3.90 | $0.00 | $5.50 | +217% |
| Mercury General | Gabriel Tirador | $0.80 | $0.10 | $0.10 | $1.00 | -30% |
| Leap Wireless International | S. Douglas Hutcheson | $0.80 | $2.20 | $0.10 | $3.00 | +8% |
| LSI | Abhijit Y. Talwalkar | $1.60 | $2.00 | $0.00 | $3.70 | +7% |
| Varian Medical Systems | Timothy E. Guertin | $2.30 | $5.30 | $0.20 | $7.70 | +39% |
| Jack In The Box | Linda A. Lang | $0.90 | $2.60 | $1.00 | $4.50 | +19% |
| SunPower | Thomas H. Werner | $1.20 | $3.40 | $0.00 | $4.60 | +10% |
| Tetra Tech | Dan L. Batrack | $1.60 | $1.40 | $0.00 | $3.10 | +37% |
| Netflix | Reed Hastings | $0.50 | $5.00 | $0.00 | $5.50 | +100% |
| Lam Research | Stephen G. Newberry | $3.90 | $2.20 | $0.00 | $6.20 | +45% |
| Brocade Communications Systems | Michael A. Klayko | $1.50 | $3.30 | $0.00 | $4.80 | -48% |
| McAfee | David G. DeWalt | $1.90 | $6.70 | $0.00 | $8.60 | +7% |
| Skechers USA | Robert Greenberg | $4.60 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $4.60 | +109% |
| Maxim Integrated Products | Tunc Doluca | $1.90 | $2.10 | $0.00 | $4.00 | +12% |
| Logitech International | Gerald P. Quindlen | $2.10 | $1.40 | $0.00 | $3.50 | +33% |
| Altera | John P. Daane | $3.70 | $4.10 | $0.00 | $7.80 | +65% |
| Autodesk | Carl Bass | $2.30 | $3.70 | $0.00 | $6.10 | -3% |
| Bio-Rad | Norman D. Schwartz | $1.40 | $2.60 | $0.00 | $3.90 | +1% |
| Quiksilver | Robert B. McKnight, Jr. | $2.50 | $0.40 | $0.00 | $2.90 | +44% |
| Xilinx | Moshe N. Gavrielov | $1.30 | $2.00 | $0.00 | $3.20 | +197% |
| KLA-Tencor | Richard P. Wallace | $3.90 | $5.90 | $0.20 | $10.00 | +126% |
| Corinthian Colleges | Peter C. Waller | $2.10 | $2.20 | $0.10 | $4.50 | N/A |
| Granite Construction | James H. Roberts | $0.60 | $0.30 | $0.10 | $1.00 | N/A |
| The Cheesecake Factory | David Overton | $1.90 | $1.80 | $0.00 | $3.70 | +2% |
| Public Storage | Ronald L. Havner, Jr. | $2.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $2.00 | -9% |
| Teledyne Technologies | Robert Mehrabian | $2.60 | $0.80 | $0.60 | $4.00 | +24% |
| Atmel | Steven A. Laub | $2.60 | $16.70 | $0.00 | $19.40 | +164% |
| CoreLogic | Anand K. Nallathambi | $1.60 | $3.80 | $0.10 | $5.50 | N/A |
| Fairchild Semiconductor International | Mark S. Thompson | $0.70 | $2.70 | $0.00 | $3.40 | +77% |
| KB Home | Jeffrey T. Mezger | $3.80 | $2.30 | $0.70 | $6.70 | -17% |
| Central Garden & Pet | William E. Brown | $1.00 | $0.90 | $0.00 | $1.90 | -40% |
| Edwards Lifesciences | Michael A. Mussallem | $2.00 | $3.70 | $0.20 | $5.80 | +2% |
| National Semiconductor | Donald Macleod | $3.10 | $10.60 | $0.00 | $13.80 | N/A |
| Intuitive Surgical | Gary S. Guthart | $0.90 | $4.20 | $0.00 | $5.10 | N/A |
| PriceSmart | Jose L. Laparte | $0.60 | $1.60 | $0.20 | $2.40 | N/A |
| VCA Antech | Robert L. Antin | $1.80 | $0.00 | $3.40 | $5.30 | +183% |
| Synopsys | Aart J. de Geus | $2.00 | $2.40 | $0.00 | $4.40 | -9% |
| McClatchy | Gary B. Pruitt | $2.80 | $0.00 | $0.90 | $3.70 | -1% |
| PC Mall | Frank F. Khulusi | $1.20 | $0.40 | $0.00 | $1.60 | +6% |
| JDS Uniphase | Thomas H. Waechter | $1.00 | $1.30 | $0.00 | $2.30 | N/A |
| 99 Cents Only Stores | Eric Schiffer | $0.10 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.10 | +7% |