2021 Executive Compensation by the Numbers
2: Number of women CEOs in the top 50 (Eileen Drake from Aerojet Rocketdyne and Therese Tucker from BlackLine).
23%: Percentage of total CEO compensation contributed by Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick to this year's list.
$154.6 million: Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick's 2020 compensation. That's the largest figure since Evan Spiegel took home $637.8 million from Snap Inc. in 2017.
$672.7 million: Cumulative compensation for the top 50 CEOs in Los Angeles County in 2020.
$30 million: Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick's compensation package from Activision in 2019.
19.8%: Total percentage increase for 2020 CEO pay compared to 2019's total compensation of$561.6 million.
5: Number of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals executives on the non-CEO list (No. 6 Bruce Given, No. 20 James Hassard, No. 21 Javier San Martin, No. 41 Curt Bradshaw and No. 44 Kenneth Myszkowski). No Arrowhead execs made the list last year.
36: Number of CEOs who saw their compensation increase in 2020.
20: Number of CEOs who saw their compensation decrease in 2020.
4: Number of women on the list of highest paid non-CEOs (No. 12 Mary Ricks, No. 14 Christine McCarthy, No. 15 Karla Lewis and No. 26 M. Jayne Parker).
3: Ares Management Corp. executives in the top spots for non-CEO compensation (David Kaplan, Bennett Rosenthal and Antony Ressler).
4,138%: Year-over-year percentage compensation growth for Andy Heyward at Genius Brands International. His 2020 package of $17.4 million included $10.4 million from stock awards and $5.8 million from option awards.
