CEO Pay in California

20 public companies headquartered in California appear in our SEC proxy-statement dataset, with average CEO compensation of $20.3M. The highest-paid CEO based in California is at Meta Platforms, with total comp of $40.0M.

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 with multi-year history, pay-versus-performance score, say-on-pay results, and named executive officer breakdown.