The highest-paid CEOs by state

Friday, May 25, 2018 6:05 AM

Here are the top-paid CEOs by state for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm.

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 had a publicly traded company headquartered there that was large enough to be included. 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.

To calculate CEO pay, Equilar adds salary, bonus, stock awards, stock option awards, deferred compensation and other components that include benefits and perks. For some companies, big raises can occur when CEOs get a stock grant in one year as part of a multi-year grant.

The typical CEO in the Standard & Poor's 500 index made $11.7 million last year.

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Alabama: O. B. Grayson Hall Jr., Regions Financial, $9.4 million (Hall is stepping down in July.)

Arkansas: C. Douglas McMillon, Walmart, $22.8 million

Arizona: Richard C. Adkerson, Freeport-McMoRan, $16.2 million

California: Michael Rapino , Live Nation Entertainment, $70.6 million

Colorado: Gregory B. Maffei, Liberty Media & Qurate Retail Group, $67.6 million

Connecticut: Mark T. Bertolini, Aetna, $18.7 million

Washington, D.C.: Thomas P. Joyce, Danaher, $14.8 million

Delaware: Hervé Hoppenot, Incyte, $16.1 million

Florida: Brian D. Jellison, Roper Technologies, $29.2 million

Georgia: Frank J. Bisignano, First Data, $102.2 million

Hawaii: Constance H. Lau, Hawaiian Electric Industries, $5.4 million

Iowa: Daniel J. Houston, Principal Financial Group, $9.4 million

Idaho: Thomas K. Corrick , Boise Cascade , $4.1 million

Illinois: Debra A. Cafaro, Ventas, $25.3 million

Indiana: N. Thomas Linebarger, Cummins, $13.2 million

Kansas: Michael J. Brown, Euronet Worldwide, $3.9 million

Kentucky: Scott L. Thompson, Tempur Sealy International, $18 million

Louisiana: Glen F. Post III, CenturyLink, $14.3 million (Post retired at the company's annual meeting, which was on Wednesday.)

Massachusetts: Stephen Kaufer, TripAdvisor, $43.2 million

Maryland: David M. Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $42.2 million

Maine: Melissa D. Smith, WEX, $10.8 million

Michigan: Mary T. Barra, General Motors, $21.9 million

Minnesota: James M. Cracchiolo, Ameriprise Financial, $22.4 million

Missouri: Michael F. Neidorff, Centene, $25.3 million

Mississippi: Joe F. Sanderson Jr., Sanderson Farms, $6.6 million

North Carolina: Brian T. Moynihan, Bank of America, $21.4 million

North Dakota: David L. Goodin, MDU Resources Group, $3.7 million

Nebraska: Lance M. Fritz, Union Pacific, $11.3 million

New Hampshire: Timothy McGrath, PC Connection, $1.6 million

New Jersey: Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson, $23 million

New Mexico: Patricia K. Collawn, PNM Resources, $4.4 million

Nevada: Stephen A. Wynn, Wynn Resorts, $34.5 million (Wynn left the CEO position in February.)

New York: Leslie Moonves, CBS, $68.4 million

Ohio: W. Nicholas Howley, TransDigm Group, $61 million

Oklahoma: Robert D. Lawler, Chesapeake Energy, $14.9 million

Oregon: Bryan B. DeBoer, Lithia Motors, $5.9 million

Pennsylvania: Brian L. Roberts, Comcast, $32.5 million

Rhode Island: Scott C. Donnelly, Textron, $13.1 million

South Carolina: John D. Williams, Domtar, $7 million

South Dakota: David R. Emery, Black Hills, $3.4 million

Tennessee: Mark J. Costa, Eastman Chemical, $14 million

Texas: Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T, $25.6 million

Utah: Harris H. Simmons, Zions, $3.2 million

Virginia: Phebe N. Novakovic, General Dynamics, $21.2 million

Washington: John J. Legere, T-Mobile US, $23.6 million

Wisconsin: Jonas Prising, ManpowerGroup Inc., $12 million

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FILE- In this June 7, 2017, file photo, Michael Rapino, President and CEO of Live Nation Entertainment, speaks during a news conference in Seattle. At $70.6 million, Rapino was the top-paid CEO in California for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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FILE- In this Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with manufacturing executives at the White House in Washington. At $21.2 million, Novakovic was the top-paid CEO in Virginia for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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FILE- In this Dec. 7, 2016, file photo, AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson smiles on Capitol Hill in Washington. At $25.6 million, Stephenson was the top-paid CEO in Texas for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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FILE- In this Aug 29, 2017, file photo, Richard Adkerson, left, CEO of Arizona-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., talks to the media as Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, center, and Energy and Minerals Minister Ignasius Jonan, right, listen during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia. At $16.2 million, Adkerson was the top-paid CEO in Arizona for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm.AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

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FILE- In this Oct. 15, 2015, file photo, First Data Corp. Chairman & CEO Frank Bisignano is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. At $102.2 million, Bisignano was the top-paid CEO in Georgia for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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FILE- In this Jan. 22, 2016, file photo, CEO of ManpowerGroup Jonas Prising gestures as he speaks during a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. At $12 million, Prising was the top-paid CEO in Wisconsin for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

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FILE- In this Jan. 14, 2018, file photo, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon speaks at the National Retail Federation's conference, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018, in New York. At $22.8 million, McMillon was the top-paid CEO in Arkansas for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

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FILE- In this Sept. 29, 2015, file photo, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. At $18.7 million, Bertolini was the top-paid CEO in Connecticut for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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FILE- In this May 2, 2012, file photo, Domtar CEO and President John Williams attends the company's annual general meeting in Montreal. At $7 million, Williams was the top-paid CEO in South Carolina for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

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FILE- In this Feb. 17, 2017, file photo, Union Pacific Chairman, President and CEO Lance Fritz, smiles after a news conference at the Durham Museum in Omaha, Neb. At $11.3 million, Fritz was the top-paid CEO in Nebraska for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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FILE- In this Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Johnson and Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky speaks during a meeting between President Donald Trump and manufacturing executives at the White House in Washington. At $23 million, Gorsky was the top-paid CEO in New Jersey for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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FILE- In this Jan. 23, 2018, file photo, Brian Moynihan, Chairman and CEO of Bank of America attends a panel about Global Markets in a Fractured World during the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland. At $21.4 million, Moynihan was the top-paid CEO in North Carolina for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

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FILE- In this July 6, 2011, file photo, Greg Maffei, president, CEO and director of Liberty Media Corp., arrives at the Sun Valley Inn for the 2011 Allen and Co. Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. At $67.6 million, Maffei was the top-paid CEO in Colorado for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

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FILE- In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, Les Moonves, chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation, poses at the premiere of the new television series "Star Trek: Discovery" in Los Angeles. Moonves was the top-paid CEO in New York for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

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