CEO Pay in California

12 public companies headquartered in California appear in our SEC proxy-statement dataset, with average CEO compensation of $54.8M. The highest-paid CEO based in California is at Broadcom, with total comp of $205.3M.

State-level CEO pay rankings reflect the headquarters geography of public companies, not where their workers or revenue is concentrated. New York, California, Texas, and Connecticut hold the largest shares of S&P 500 headquarters and therefore dominate state rankings; many states host only a handful of public-company headquarters. Each company below links to its full CEO compensation profile, including the SEC-disclosed headline total and its multi-year history from the company’s DEF 14A proxy filings.