What Salaries Top 15 Highest Paid Woman CEOs Received In 2014: Female CEOs Pay?

The aerospace and defense giant, Lockheed-Martin chief Marillyn A. Hewson was the highest-paid woman in the Wall Street Journal’s annual pay rankings, coming in at No. 11 on the overall list with a compensation package valued at $33.7 million, up 34% from a year earlier.

Surprise! The Highest Paid CEOs are often a bunch of men. But this year – Female CEOs smashed The Corporate Glass Ceiling.

Notably, 15 of the 300 companies surveyed had female CEOs, meanwhile 3 of the 15 highest-paid woman CEOs earned less than the median pay of $13.6 million.

The highest-paid woman CEO in the previous year’s rankings, Carol Meyrowitz, dropped to the 2nd spot.

The next 2 highest-paid female CEOs after Carol Meyrowitz are PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, whose total compensation for 2014 was valued at $22.5 million and Xerox’s Ursula Burns, whose was valued at $22.2 million.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra earned $16.2 million in her first year at the helm, a pay package that was 80% higher than her predecessor’s $9 million 2013 pay. Notably, GM said early last year that Mary Barra would make about $14.4 million in 2014.

List of the 15 highest-paid woman CEOs in 2014:

1. Hewson, Marillyn A., Lockheed Martin    
Overall Pay Rank – 11
Total Pay – $33.7 Million

2. Meyrowitz, Carol, TJX Companies
Overall Pay Rank – 21
Total Pay – $28.7 Million

3. Nooyi, Indra K., PepsiCo
Overall Pay Rank – 43
Total Pay – $22.5 Million

4. Burns, Ursula M., Xerox
Overall Pay Rank – 44
Total Pay – $22.2 Million

5. Rosenfeld, Irene, Mondelez International
Overall Pay Rank – 53
Total Pay – $21.0 Million

6. Whitman, Margaret C., Hewlett-Packard
Overall Pay Rank – 63
Total Pay – $19.6 Million

7. Novakovic, Phebe N., General Dynamics
Overall Pay Rank – 69
Total Pay – $19.4 Million

8. Rometty, Virginia M., IBM
Overall Pay Rank – 71
Total Pay – $19.3 Million

9. Woertz, Patricia A., Archer-Daniels-Midland
Overall Pay Rank – 90
Total Pay – $17.0 Million

10. Reed, Debra L., Sempra Energy
Overall Pay Rank – 92
Total Pay – $16.9 Million

11. Barra, Mary T., General Motors
Overall Pay Rank – 97
Total Pay – $16.2 Million

12. Kullman, Ellen J., Du Pont
Overall Pay Rank – 133
Total Pay – $14.3 Million

13. Rentler, Barbara, Ross Stores
Overall Pay Rank – 175
Total Pay – $12.1 Million

14. Good, Lynn J., Duke Energy
Overall Pay Rank – 247
Total Pay – $8.3 Million

15. Lubel, Kimberly S., CST Brands
Overall Pay Rank – 282
Total Pay – $4.9 Million

Note: Journal’s annual pay survey, conducted by the consultancy Hay Group, analyzed the compensation for CEOs at 300 large companies with at least $9.1 billion in revenue. Overall, total compensation for the 300 CEOs in the Journal’s survey rose by a median of 13.5% to about $13.6 million.