Highest-Paid CEOs in America 2025

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Look at what separates first place from second here. Elon Musk, Tesla, sits on an estimated $132.3B, and that number is an award tied to the company's long-term performance, not cash handed over. Below him the scale changes fast. Dylan Field of Figma takes second at $864M, then Shankh Mitra of Welltower third at $821M, Kasra Nejatian of Opendoor fourth at $741M, RJ Scaringe of Rivian fifth at $403M. Niraj Shah of Wayfair is sixth at $281M, Hock Tan of Broadcom seventh at $205M, David Zaslav of Warner Bros. Discovery eighth at $165M, David Solomon of Goldman Sachs ninth at $119M, Nikesh Arora of Palo Alto Networks tenth at $100M. Christopher R. Britt of Chime Financial is eleventh at $99M. Then a pair: Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Jane Fraser of Citigroup share twelfth and thirteenth, both at $96M. Charles W. Scharf of Wells Fargo is fourteenth at $95M, Lip-Bu Tan of Intel fifteenth at $93M, Robin A. Vince of BNY Mellon sixteenth at $83M. Mark D. McClain of SailPoint and Marc N. Casper of Thermo Fisher Scientific tie at $80M in seventeenth and eighteenth. Ajei S. Gopal of Procore Technologies rounds out the named group at nineteenth with $77M. The ranking covers the top twenty highest-paid CEOs in America for 2025, compiled with Equilar, Visual Capitalist and The New York Times.