“How do the region’s chief executives stack up when it comes to their pay? For an answer, Capital Business commissioned Equilar, an executive compensation research firm, to analyze the annual pay of CEOs at 100 of the area’s largest public companies. Equilar examined the compensation totals for the chief executives serving as of the close of the companies’ most recent completed fiscal year ended on or after March 31, 2010, which means in some cases an executive may have since moved on. So consider this listing a snapshot in time.”