Big Bucks, But Number Is Still Small: America’s 10 Highest Paid Women CEOs For 2016

The median pay for a woman CEO was $13.1 million in 2016, up 9% from the year prior, according to analysis from executive data firm Equilar and the Associated Press. By comparison, male CEOs took home median compensation of $11.4 million, also up 9 percent.

No doubt, women CEOs making big bucks, but number is still small: Of the 346 CEOs included in the analysis, only 21 — or 6% — were women. A slight increase from about 5% in 2015 and 2014.

IBM’s Virginia Rometty unseated Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer as the highest-paid woman CEO in 2016.

Ms. Rometty earned $32.3 million last year, whereas Ms. Mayer, the 2nd-highest earning woman CEO, earned $27.4 million in 2016.

With $25.2 million in 2016, Indra Nooyi came in 3rd on the list, followed by GM’s Mary Barra, who earned $22.4 million.

Here are the 10 highest-paid women CEOs in the U.S. for 2016

1. Virginia Rometty; IBM
   $32.3 million
   Change: Up 63%
2. Marissa Mayer; Yahoo Inc.
   $27.4 million
   Change: Down 24%
3. Indra Nooyi; Pepsico Inc.
   $25.2 million
   Change: Up 13%
4. Mary Barra; General Motors Co.
   $22.4 million
   Change: Down 22%
5. Phebe Novakovic; General Dynamics Corp.
   $21.2 million
   Change: Up 4%
6. Marillyn Hewson; Lockheed Martin Corp.
   $19.4 million
   Change: Down 4%
7. Irene Rosenfeld; Mondelez International Inc.
   $15.8 million
   Change: Down 13%
8. Lynn Good; Duke Energy Corp.
   $13.5 million
   Change: Up 26%
9. Heather Bresch; Mylan NV
   $13.3 million
   Change: Down 27%
10. Susan Cameron; Reynolds America Inc.
    $13.1 million
    Change: Down 3%