CEO Pay in New Jersey

4 public companies headquartered in New Jersey appear in our SEC proxy-statement dataset, with average CEO compensation of $11.0M. The highest-paid CEO based in New Jersey is at Johnson & Johnson, with total comp of $12.0M.

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.