The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
Listing the highest-paid CEOs in U.S. by state
The survey considered only publicly traded companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that filed their proxy statements with federal regulators between Jan. 1 and April 30.
Not every state has such a company headquartered there.
The survey includes only CEOs who have been in place for at least two years, but it does not limit the survey to companies in the S&P 500, as the AP’s general compensation study does.
CEOs
Alabama: J. Thomas Hill, Vulcan Materials, $7.8 million Arizona: Richard Adkerson,
Freeport-McMoRan, $14 million
Arkansas: C. Douglas McMillon, Walmart, $23.6 million California: Elon Musk, Tesla, $2.28Billion Colorado: Gregory Maffei, Liberty Media, $20.2 million Connecticut: Glenn Fogel, Booking Holdings, $20.5 million
Delaware: Hervé Hoppenot, Incyte, $9.3 million
Washington, D.C.: Thomas Joyce, Jr., Danaher, $15.4 million
Florida: Frank Del Rio, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, $22.6 million Georgia: Martin Richenhagen, AGCO, $18.6 million Hawaii: Constance Lau, Hawaiian Electric Industries, $5.7 million Idaho: Darrel Anderson, IDACORP, $4.5 million Illinois: Miles White , Abbott Laboratories, $24.3 million Indiana: David Ricks, Eli Lilly, $15.7 million Iowa: Daniel Houston, Principal Financial Group, $10.5 million
Kansas: Thomas Gentile III, Spirit AeroSystems, $9.9 million
Kentucky: William Carstanjen, Churchill Downs, $21.1 million
Louisiana: Leo Denault, Entergy, $9.3 million Maine: Jonathan Ayers, IDEXX Laboratories, $6.8 million
Maryland: David Zaslav, Discovery, $129.5 million
Massachusetts: James Heppelmann, PTC, $50 million Michigan: Mary Barra, General Motors, $21.9 million Minnesota: James Cracchiolo, Ameriprise Financial, $24.8 million
Mississippi: Joe Sanderson, Jr., Sanderson Farms, $4.2 million Missouri: Michael Neidorff, Centene, $26.1 million Nebraska: Lance Fritz, Union Pacific, $12.8 million Nevada: Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands, $24 million
New Hampshire: Timothy McGrath, PC Connection, $4.5 million
New Jersey: Kenneth Frazier, Merck, $20.9 million New Mexico: Patricia Collawn,
PNM Resources, $4.8 million
New York: James Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, $30 million
North Carolina: Brian Moynihan, Bank of America, $22.5 million
North Dakota: David Goodin, MDU Resources Group, $4.1 million
Ohio: Gary Heminger, Marathon Petroleum, $18.9 million
Oklahoma: Harold Hamm, Continental Resources, $13.3 million Oregon: Bryan DeBoer, Lithia Motors, $5.5 million Pennsylvania: Brian Roberts, Comcast, $35 million Rhode Island: Larry Merlo, CVS Health, $21.9 million
South Carolina: John Williams, Domtar, $8 million
South Dakota: David Emery, Black Hills , $4.1 million (left company on Dec. 31, 2018)
Tennessee: R. Milton Johnson, HCA Healthcare, $20.1 million (left company on Dec. 31, 2018)
Texas: Lewis Bird III, At Home Group, $43.1 million
Utah: Joseph Margolis, Extra Space Storage, $4.4 million
Virginia: Paul Saville, NVR, $39.1 million
Washington: John Legere, T-Mobile US, $66.5 million Wisconsin: Jeffery Yabuki, Fiserv, $12.4 million