I Just Finished Coding A CEO Salary Stock Screener
posted on: 2010-01-08 12:47:12 by Soo-Young
tags: site news, screeners

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The other day, I read an article from the Huffington Post titled: "High CEO Pay May Correlate With Lower Long-Term Stock Value, According To Two Studies". The article highlights a study from the Harvard Law School that explores the relation between the CEO Pay Slice (CPS) of a company and it's relative value and performance. The CPS of a company can be calculated by dividing the CEO salary by the total executive team salary. If the very smart people at Harvard Law consider CPS a topic worth exploring, there has to be something there. I decided to dig a little further and create my own CEO salary and CPS screener and share it with all of you. Some interesting CEO facts:

1. The highest paid CEO is Aubrey K. McClendon of Chesapeake Energy with a salary of $77,930,000.00
2. There are 78 CEOs that earn a $0.00 salary
3. Only 16 CEOs have a salary over $10,000,000.00
4. The majority of CEOs make less than $1,000,000.00
5. 137 CEOs have Ph.D.s

You can use the screener to screen by Stock Symbol, CEO Salary, and CEO Pay Slice. Below is a screenshot of what the form looks like.


On the main screen, there are two pie charts dividing the CEOs by salary level, post-secondary education, and certification. Below the two pie charts are two tables ranking the highest and lowest paid CEOs. Each CEO listing has corresponding links to Google Finance, Yahoo! Finance, and YCharts.