Business & Tech

What Georgia Executive Made More than $20M Last Year? Top 16 Salaries

Average worker made just over $41,000.

The top-paid chief executive at a publicly traded company in Georgia earned more than $20 million last year, the AFL-CIO’s 2014 Executive PayWatch shows.

The analysis tracks the most recent salaries available for S&P 500 Index companies.

Nationally, the highest paid chief executives were Lawrence J. Ellison of Oracle Corp. and Elon Musk of Telsa Motors Inc., who were paid $78,440,657 and $78,150,010, respectively.

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Topping the Georgia list was Muhtar Kent at Coca-Cola in Atlanta.

The average CEO pay in the state was $4.9 million. By contrast, the average full-time worker made $41,129.

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The Top 16 executive salaries:

  1. COCA-COLA CO., ATLANTA, Muhtar Kent, 2013, $20,380,660
  2. AFLAC INC, COLUMBUS, Daniel P. Amos, 2013, $18,582,055
  3. COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES INC, ATLANTA, John F. Brock, 2013, $17,021,019
  4. INVESCO LTD, ATLANTA, Martin L. Flanagan, 2013, $14,381,762
  5. SOUTHERN CO., ATLANTA, Thomas A. Fanning, 2012, $13,035,348
  6. ROCK-TENN CO, NORCROSS, James A. Rubright, 2013, $12,595,833
  7. DELTA AIR LINES INC, ATLANTA, Richard H. Anderson, 2012, $12,575,572
  8. AGCO CORP, DULUTH, Martin Richenhagen, 2013, $11,742,360
  9. NCR CORP, DULUTH, William R. Nuti, 2013, $11,150,677
  10. HOME DEPOT INC, ATLANTA, Francis S. Blake, 2012, $11,093,914
  11. NEWELL RUBBERMAID INC, ATLANTA, Michael B. Polk, 2013, $10,853,449
  12. FLEETCOR TECHNOLOGIES, NORCROSS, Ronald F. Clarke, 2012, $10,521,801
  13. EQUIFAX INC, ATLANTA, Richard F. Smith, 2013, $10,515,558
  14. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, ATLANTA, D. Scott Davis, 2013, $10,335,665
  15. CARTER'S INC, ATLANTA, Michael D. Casey, 2012, $9,766,346
  16. GRAPHIC PACKAGING HOLDING CO, MARIETTA, David W. Scheible, 2012, $9,225,116


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