CEO Pay How much California’s top executives make

The chief ex­ec­ut­ives of Cali­for­nia’s 100 largest com­pan­ies were paid nearly $1.2 bil­lion last year, tak­ing home com­pens­a­tion pack­ages of cash, stock and be­ne­fits worth an av­er­age of $11.4 mil­lion. Four of the five highest-paid ex­ec­ut­ives on the list are from Sil­ic­on Val­ley firms.

Note: All pay fig­ures are in mil­lions of dol­lars.

Rank Name Company (Headquarters) Total Pay % Change Cash Pay Equity Pay Other Pay Ratio of CEO pay to average industry worker pay
1 Mark V. Hurd* Oracle (Redwood City) $53.25 $0.95 $52.27 $0.02 362
2 Safra A. Catz* Oracle (Redwood City) $53.24 $0.95 $52.27 $0.02 362
3 Robert A. Iger Walt Disney (Burbank) $44.91 -3% $24.89 $17.28 $2.74 477
4 Marissa A. Mayer Yahoo! (Sunnyvale) $35.98 -15% $1.00 $34.43 $0.55 342
5 Marc Benioff salesforce.com (San Francisco) $33.36 -16% $4.65 $27.26 $1.45 338
6 John H. Hammergren McKesson (San Francisco) $24.84 -4% $12.10 $12.37 $0.37 222
7 John S. Watson Chevron (San Ramon) $22.04 -15% $4.31 $14.68 $3.05 183
8 Jeffrey Weiner LinkedIn (Mountain View) $19.86 27% $2.47 $17.26 $0.13 182
9 John T. Chambers** Cisco Systems (San Jose) $19.62 19% $5.10 $14.51 $0.01 170
10 John G. Stumpf Wells Fargo (San Francisco) $19.32 -10% $6.80 $12.50 $0.02 256
11 John C. Martin** Gilead Sciences (Foster City) $18.76 -1% $5.77 $12.98 $0.01 117
12 Michael S. Burke AECOM Technology (Los Angeles) $18.61 $4.12 $14.00 $0.49 199
13 Shantanu Narayen Adobe Systems (San Jose) $18.36 3% $2.41 $15.85 $0.09 125
14 Gary E. Dickerson Applied Materials (Santa Clara) $18.09 10% $3.09 $10.82 $4.19 131
15 Margaret C. Whitman** Hewlett-Packard (Palo Alto) $17.10 -13% $3.95 $12.85 $0.30 89
16 Reed Hastings Netflix (Los Gatos) $16.63 50% $1.12 $15.50 $0.02 161
17 Michael A. Brown** Symantec (Mountain View) $16.33 $2.13 $14.18 $0.02 178
18 Debra L. Reed Sempra Energy (San Diego) $16.14 -4% $4.52 $7.16 $4.46 152
19 Robert A. Bradway Amgen (Thousand Oaks) $16.10 15% $5.35 $10.20 $0.55 152
20 Brad D. Smith Intuit (Mountain View) $16.02 -3% $2.46 $13.55 $0.01 150
21 Gregory E. Johnson Franklin Resources (San Mateo) $15.10 -5% $4.43 $10.60 $0.06 92
22 Hamid R. Moghadam Prologis (San Francisco) $14.98 -9% $3.27 $11.62 $0.10 196
23 Brian M. Krzanich Intel (Santa Clara) $14.63 31% $4.55 $9.80 $0.28 106
24 Devin N. Wenig eBay (San Jose) $14.51 $3.64 $10.86 $0.02 295
25 Daniel H. Schulman PayPal Holdings (San Jose) $14.44 $3.32 $10.36 $0.76 178
26 Patrick P. Gelsinger VMware (Palo Alto) $14.36 68% $2.44 $11.90 $0.01 98
27 Jay M. Gellert** Health Net (Woodland Hills) $14.31 15% $4.55 $7.24 $2.52 173
28 Victor Herrero Guess (Los Angeles) $14.09 $3.69 $10.29 $0.11 360
29 Laura J. Alber Williams-Sonoma (San Francisco) $14.00 -5% $3.97 $10.00 $0.02 223
30 Ronald S. Nersesian Keysight Technologies (Santa Rosa) $13.67 118% $2.14 $11.33 $0.20 132
31 Walter W. Bettinger Charles Schwab (San Francisco) $12.34 4% $4.71 $7.50 $0.12 47
32 Anthony F. Earley PG&E (San Francisco) $12.20 5% $3.53 $7.50 $1.17 147
33 Carl Bass Autodesk (San Rafael) $12.18 10% $2.48 $9.62 $0.08 83
34 Steven J. Demetriou Jacobs Engineering Group (Pasadena) $12.13 $5.78 $6.35 $0.01 173
35 Ronald N. Tutor Tutor Perini (Sylmar) $12.05 -53% $5.50 $5.64 $0.91 182
36 Charles W. Scharf Visa (San Francisco) $11.84 54% $4.31 $7.47 $0.06 157
37 Stephen D. Milligan Western Digital (Irvine) $11.71 4% $2.55 $9.15 $0.01 85
38 Andrew Wilson Electronic Arts (Redwood City) $11.63 $2.88 $8.70 $0.06 79
39 Martin B. Anstice Lam Research (Fremont) $11.16 -26% $4.75 $6.41 $0.01 81
40 Theodore F. Craver, Jr. Edison International (Rosemead) $11.11 -22% $2.90 $5.94 $2.28 107
41 Stephen M. Smith Equinix (Redwood City) $11.11 -3% $2.04 $9.06 $0.01 102
42 Sanjay Mehrotra** SanDisk (Milpitas) $10.73 -7% $1.55 $9.00 $0.17 78
43 Ronald L. Havner, Jr. Public Storage (Glendale) $10.50 17% $3.50 $6.99 $0.01 256
44 Rodney C. Sacks Monster Beverage (Corona) $10.43 36% $1.13 $9.23 $0.08 190
45 Steven M. Mollenkopf Qualcomm (San Diego) $10.37 $2.17 $8.00 $0.21 95
46 Tim Cook Apple (Cupertino) $10.28 11% $10.00 $0.00 $0.28 54
47 J. Mario Molina Molina Healthcare (Long Beach) $10.27 31% $2.36 $7.89 $0.02 124
48 Jure Sola Sanmina (San Jose) $10.18 22% $2.32 $7.81 $0.06 144
49 Barbara Rentler Ross Stores (Dublin) $10.16 $3.85 $6.20 $0.11 554
50 Jen-Hsun Huang NVIDIA (Santa Clara) $9.97 7% $2.51 $7.46 $0.00 72
51 Michael Rapino Live Nation Entertainment (Beverly Hills) $9.96 -10% $7.36 $2.52 $0.08 280
52 Harold M. Messmer Robert Half International (Menlo Park) $9.86 8% $3.65 $6.21 $0.00 324
53 Christopher A. Sinclair Mattel (El Segundo) $9.74 $2.35 $6.50 $0.90 139
54 Rami Rahim Juniper Networks (Sunnyvale) $9.42 $2.01 $7.40 $0.02 82
55 Thomas Georgens** NetApp (Sunnyvale) $9.39 9% $1.93 $7.45 $0.01 68
56 Jay T. Flatley** Illumina (San Diego) $9.22 -38% $2.15 $7.00 $0.06 70
57 Michael A. Mussallem Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine) $9.06 5% $3.05 $5.84 $0.18 119
58 Alain Monie Ingram Micro (Irvine) $9.03 8% $3.50 $5.50 $0.03 72
59 Jeffrey T. Mezger KB Home (Los Angeles) $8.86 -14% $4.97 $3.81 $0.07 165
60 Steven W. Berglund Trimble Navigation (Sunnyvale) $8.76 24% $1.03 $7.72 $0.00 109
61 Dean A. Scarborough** Avery Dennison (Glendale) $8.57 -29% $3.02 $5.24 $0.30 115
62 Richard P. Wallace KLA-Tencor (Milpitas) $8.38 22% $2.05 $6.30 $0.03 114
63 Gregg J. Mollins Reliance Steelæ& Aluminum (Los Angeles) $8.36 $2.09 $5.57 $0.70 130
64 Lloyd A. Carney Brocade Communications Systems (San Jose) $8.35 -17% $1.98 $6.37 $0.00 61
65 Robert L. Antin VCA (Los Angeles) $8.23 19% $3.57 $4.30 $0.37 226
66 Benno O. Dorer Clorox (Oakland) $7.86 $2.47 $5.00 $0.39 96
67 Robert E. Sulentic CBRE Group (Los Angeles) $7.70 21% $3.57 $4.12 $0.00 135
68 Peter T. Dameris On Assignment (Calabasas) $7.58 36% $2.47 $5.10 $0.01 250
69 Dow R. Wilson Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto) $7.51 16% $1.86 $5.50 $0.15 72
70 Robert A. Kotick Activision Blizzard (Santa Monica) $7.23 5% $7.14 $0.00 $0.09 49
71 Michael R. McMullen Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara) $7.21 $1.96 $4.95 $0.30 76
72 Robert Y. Greenberg Skechers U.S.A. (Manhattan Beach) $7.12 -25% $6.85 $0.00 $0.27 182
73 Lauralee E. Martin HCP (Irvine) $6.88 -45% $2.19 $4.68 $0.01 152
74 Jon Feltheimer Lions Gate Entertainment (Santa Monica) $6.77 -90% $5.55 $1.00 $0.22 46
75 Todd A. Stevens California Resources (Los Angeles) $6.64 $1.58 $4.65 $0.41 41
76 Lisa T. Su Advanced Micro Devices (Sunnyvale) $6.56 $1.15 $5.38 $0.03 48
77 Arthur Peck Gap (San Francisco) $6.14 $1.30 $4.81 $0.03 335
78 David Overton Cheesecake Factory (Calabasas Hills) $5.92 10% $2.20 $3.59 $0.13 303
79 Moshe N. Gavrielov Xilinx (San Jose) $5.90 -9% $1.61 $4.29 $0.00 43
80 Tunc Doluca Maxim Integrated Products (San Jose) $5.89 57% $1.59 $4.29 $0.02 43
81 Dennis J. Gilmore First American Financial (Santa Ana) $5.73 2% $3.16 $2.56 $0.01 68
82 Dan L. Batrack Tetra Tech (Pasadena) $5.42 20% $1.95 $3.43 $0.04 58
83 Mark E. Zuckerberg Facebook (Menlo Park) $5.04 -19% $0.00 $0.00 $5.04 46
84 Aart J. de Geus* Synopsys (Mountain View) $4.92 10% $2.32 $2.57 $0.03 54
85 Chi-Foon Chan* Synopsys (Mountain View) $4.92 9% $2.32 $2.57 $0.03 54
86 Douglas F. Bauer TRI Pointe Group (Irvine) $4.47 114% $1.33 $3.12 $0.02 83
87 Burton M. Goldfield TriNet Group (San Leandro) $4.25 76% $0.69 $3.50 $0.06 49
88 Robert Mehrabian Teledyne Technologies (Thousand Oaks) $4.08 -52% $1.98 $1.63 $0.46 37
89 Kevin M. Murai SYNNEX (Fremont) $3.93 -48% $1.84 $2.07 $0.01 31
90 Gary S. Guthart Intuitive Surgical (Sunnyvale) $3.72 42% $1.21 $2.52 $0.00 49
91 Larry T. Nicholson CalAtlantic Group (Irvine) $2.88 $2.85 $0.00 $0.03 37
92 James H. Roberts Granite Construction (Watsonville) $2.83 22% $1.73 $0.98 $0.12 40
93 Thomas T. Edman TTM Technologies (Costa Mesa) $2.82 87% $1.89 $0.92 $0.01 43
94 Gabriel Tirador Mercury General (Los Angeles) $2.45 -4% $1.85 $0.54 $0.06 28
95 Thomas B. Perkins Core-Mark Holding Company (South San Francisco) $1.79 9% $0.91 $0.87 $0.01 31
96 Gary G. Friedman Restoration Hardware Holdings (Corte Madera) $1.68 -35% $1.66 $0.00 $0.02 28
97 David G. Hirz Smartæ& Final Stores (Commerce) $1.53 -66% $1.50 $0.00 $0.04 26
98 Gregory N. Roberts A-Mark Precious Metals (Santa Monica) $0.94 -11% $0.93 $0.00 $0.02 17
99 Jose L. Laparte PriceSmart (San Diego) $0.81 -7% $0.71 $0.00 $0.10 32
100 Jack Dorsey Twitter (San Francisco) $0.07 $0.00 $0.00 $0.07 0.63
101 Elon R. Musk Tesla Motors (Palo Alto) $0.04 6% $0.04 $0.00 $0.00 0.46
102 Lawrence Page*** Alphabet (Mountain View) $0.00 0% $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 0.00001

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Sources: The list was compiled by Equilar, an executive compensation solutions firm, drawing on 2015 fiscal-year proxy statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by June 8. Total compensation was calculated by adding base salary, discretionary and performance-based cash bonuses, the grant-date fair value for stock and option awards during the fiscal year, the annual change in accumulated pension benefits, above-market earnings from deferred compensation plan balances and other compensation, including perquisites. All data was drawn from summary compensation tables reported to the SEC. Pay disparity information is based on a Times analysis of data from FactSet Reseach Systems and the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.