“GMIs CEO Pay Survey 2011, one of the largest surveys of CEO compensation in North America, is based on analysis of the Russell 3000 and S&P 500 companies. Only 2,132 CEOs were in the job for the whole of the last two fiscal years, so it is on this smaller sample that changes in CEO compensation were calculated. This is a survey of annual and realized compensation paid to CEOs in 2011 for fiscal year 2010. Key findings of the survey include:
- Total Realized Compensation in the S&P 500 rose by about 36 percent.
- Total Realized Compensation in the Russell 1000 rose by more than 38 percent.
- Total Realized Compensation in the Russell 3000 rose by 27 percent.
- Total Annual Compensation in the Russell 3000 increased by 13 percent.
- Three of the 10 highest-paid CEOs of 2010 are from the Health Care Providers & Services industry, including the top two.
- Four of the 10 highest-paid CEOs of 2010 were retired or terminated executives receiving exit packages.
- Perks in the S&P 500 rose 11 percent from 2009 to 2010.
- Three of the five highest-paid CEOs of 2010 received single-year pension and deferred compensation increases of roughly $14 million.”
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