In 2024, the District of Columbia was the U.S. state with the ******* salary for accountants and auditors, with a mean annual wage of over ******* U.S. dollars. New York and New Jersey followed in the list of the states with the highest salaries for these professions.

In 2024, many of the highest paying jobs were those in the medical field. The mean annual pay for psychiatrists was at 269,120 U.S. dollars in the United States. The highest paying occupation was pediatric surgeon, with a mean annual wage of 450,810 U.S. dollars.

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This statistic depicts the highest mean annual wage for architects in the United States as of 2017, broken down by state. In that year, architects were paid the highest salary in New York, earning on average around ******* U.S. dollars annually.

Each year, the City of Boston publishes payroll data for employees. This dataset contains employee names, job details, and earnings information including base salary, overtime, and total compensation for employees of the City.

See the "Payroll Categories" document below for an explanation of what types of earnings are included in each category.

Context

There are two commonly understood ways in which a company is considered public: first, the company’s securities trade on public markets; and second, the company discloses certain business and financial information regularly to the public.

With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many aspects of the business, a large portion of companies have proceeded with executive compensation adjustments as a response. Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%.
Excessive CEO pay is a major contributor to rising inequality that we could safely do away with. CEOs are getting more because of their power to set pay and because so much of their pay (more than 80%) is stock-related, not because they are increasing their productivity or possess specific, high-demand skills. This escalation of CEO compensation, and of executive compensation more generally, has fueled the growth of top 1.0% and top 0.1% incomes, leaving less of the fruits of economic growth for ordinary workers and widening the gap between very high earners and the bottom 90%. The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or were taxed more).

Content

CEO_compensation_top50_2020.csv contains data about the top 50 paid CEOs in 2020. Parameters include: - Total Granted Compensation (TGC) - Total Realized Compensation (TRC) - Total Shareholder Return (TSR) in % - TSR 1YR growth in % - TGC 1YR growth in % - TRC 1YR growth in %

CEO_largestrevenue_highestpaid_2020-21.csv contains data about the CEO & Employee pay at the largest companies by revenue in 2020/2021, as well as the New York Times published 200 highest-paid CEOs in 2020. Parameters include: - CEO Total Compensation - Median Employee Pay - Pay change over previous year - Fiscal Year Revenue - Revenue change over previous year - CEO to Employee Pay Ratio

Acknowledgements

Source: CGLytics and Equilar

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