America’s Top 100 Highest Paid CEO’s of 2011

May 03, 2011 3:17 AM ET

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Recently on Stocks on Wall Street’s Fan Page we have been guessing who was the highest paid CEO of 2011? Well we can finally end all speculation, in a huge surprise, Stephen JHemsley of UnitedHealth Group was America’s highest paid CEO in 2011 making a whopping $101,965,000. Adding to that the man owns 111,400,000 shares of UnitedHealth Group. That’s some serious wealth for a man who has immense amounts of power now a days. Anyways, thanks to all who guessed on our fan page and hope you enjoy the list below:

Rank	Name	Company	1-Year Pay ($mil)	5 Year Pay ($mil)	Shares Owned ($mil)	Age	Efficiency
1	Stephen J Hemsley	UnitedHealth Group	101.96⁵	120.47²	111.4	58	-
2	Edward A Mueller	Qwest Communications	65.80	75.00³	36.3	64	-
3	Robert A Iger	Walt Disney	53.32	147.08	43.4	60	-
4	George Paz	Express Scripts	51.52	100.21	79.5	56	-
5	Lew Frankfort	Coach	49.45	137.87	133.9	65	86
6	Ralph Lauren	Polo Ralph Lauren	43.00	155.25	3,417.8	71	74
7	John C Martin	Gilead Sciences	42.72	204.24	76.8	59	72
8	James T Hackett	Anadarko Petroleum	38.94	97.38	24.6	57	93
9	John T Chambers	Cisco Systems	37.90	170.34	58.0	61	190
10	Ivan G Seidenberg	Verizon Commun	36.75	130.19	76.5	64	163
11	David E I Pyott	Allergan	33.76	104.60	14.9	58	82
12	Gregory T Lucier	Life Technologies	33.75	73.13	15.8	46	141
13	Charles D Davidson	Noble Energy	33.44	54.96	38.2	61	29
14	John H Hammergren	McKesson	32.46	173.57	42.3	52	91
15	Joseph M Tucci	EMC	31.63	86.79	34.1	63	137
16	Jen-Hsun Huang	Nvidia	31.40⁵	137.25	372.1	48	38
17	Gregory H Boyce	Peabody Energy	30.66	85.07	14.1	56	-
18	F H Merelli	Cimarex Energy	30.53	47.44	84.7	75	25
19	Samuel J Palmisano	IBM	30.32	127.80	102.9	59	173
20	Louis C Camilleri	Philip Morris Intl	30.08⁵	-	103.3	56	-
21	Michael D Watford	Ultra Petroleum	30.03⁵	201.21	156.6	57	116
22	Howard D Schultz	Starbucks	29.73	159.50²	672.0	57	-
23	David C Novak	Yum Brands	29.67	199.88	13.6	58	58
24	Kent J Thiry	DaVita	29.51⁵	126.09	15.3	55	63
25	David N Farr	Emerson Electric	28.93	68.72	80.4	56	80
26	Alexander M Cutler	Eaton	28.47	90.23	30.3	59	122
27	Howard Solomon	Forest Labs	27.10	105.76	35.7	83	169
28	Leslie Moonves	CBS	26.41⁵	129.93	26.3	62	-
29	Richard C Adkerson	Freeport Copper	25.29⁵	179.10	172.8	64	55
30	William H Swanson	Raytheon	24.88⁵	97.77	41.9	62	149
31	Jeffery H Boyd	Priceline.com	24.38⁵	40.77	89.9	54	3
32	Louis R Chenevert	United Technologies	23.97	60.45²	27.7	53	-
33	Donald E Washkewicz	Parker-Hannifin	23.88	66.31	54.5	60	96
34	Peter J Rose	Expeditors Intl	23.63	66.96	55.2	68	26
35	George W Buckley	3M	23.22	55.55	12.2	64	-
36	John P Daane	Altera	23.19	32.96	15.4	47	42
37	James R Young	Union Pacific	23.06	49.71	82.5	59	-
38	Marshall O Larsen	Goodrich	22.43	54.00	11.8	62	17
39	Robert J Hugin	Celgene	22.39^5,6	-	33.9	56	-
40	David B Snow Jr	Medco Health	22.19	87.10	17.2	56	36
41	Jay S Fishman	Travelers Cos	22.03⁵	58.58	26.9	58	-
42	Richard B Handler	Jefferies Group	21.30	145.08	286.4	49	148
43	Randall L Stephenson	AT&T	21.28	55.29²	15.5	51	-
44	Michael A J Farrell	Annaly Capital Managem	21.18⁵	64.48	39.8	59	88
45	James A Skinner	McDonald’s	20.71	75.07	24.3	66	22
46	Donald E Felsinger	Sempra Energy	20.60⁵	56.83	18.9	63	-
47	William R Berkley	WR Berkley	20.35⁵	200.03	738.8	65	132
48	Mark C Pigott	Paccar	20.20	80.12	164.6	57	128
49	Stephen I Chazen	Occidental Petroleum	20.13⁶	-	202.3	64	-
50	Philippe P Dauman	Viacom	19.94	64.57	15.6	57	-
51	Michael J Ward	CSX	19.83	96.78	28.2	60	20
52	Keith D Nosbusch	Rockwell Automation	19.69	32.49	32.6	60	100
53	Indra K Nooyi	PepsiCo	19.63	56.50	15.2	55	-
54	John W Conway	Crown Holdings	19.33	64.69	56.9	65	53
55	Laurence D Fink	BlackRock	19.31⁵	116.22	249.0	58	40
56	Ian M Cook	Colgate-Palmolive	19.23	39.98²	23.3	59	-
57	Daniel P Amos	Aflac	19.17	133.89	276.6	59	97
58	Frederick W Smith	FedEx	19.07	108.68	1,759.3	66	150
59	John F Coyne	Western Digital	19.03	48.40	13.8	61	-
60	William R Johnson	HJ Heinz	19.02	57.42	55.0	62	129
61	Michael T Fries	Liberty Global	18.98⁵	45.55	26.2	48	-
62	James M Cracchiolo	Ameriprise Financial	18.83	62.92	14.6	53	-
63	Clayton M Jones	Rockwell Collins	18.77	47.72	8.0	61	103
64	William C Weldon	Johnson & Johnson	18.36	88.69	26.3	62	188
65	J Wayne Leonard	Entergy	18.12	101.96	24.4	60	158
66	Christopher M Connor	Sherwin-Williams	17.75	73.16	46.1	55	52
67	Timothy M Manganello	BorgWarner	17.73	46.36	43.4	60	11
68	H Lawrence Culp Jr	Danaher	17.72	197.88	61.6	48	94
69	Kenneth I Chenault	American Express	17.44	95.19	43.5	59	193
70	G Steven Farris	Apache	17.36	69.05	58.6	63	95
71	John D Finnegan	Chubb	17.21	106.00	45.8	62	86
72	Robert A Eckert	Mattel	16.91	53.87	9.6	56	108
73	Brian L Roberts	Comcast	16.84⁵	146.28	458.5	51	159
74	Wendell P Weeks	Corning	16.76	69.50	10.5	51	-
75	Irene B Rosenfeld	Kraft Foods	16.71⁵	33.38²	29.1	57	-
76	Frits D van Paasschen	Starwood Hotels	16.66	25.01²	11.2	49	-
77	John F Brock	Coca-Cola Enterprises	16.59	27.96	4.4	62	-
78	Thomas M Ryan	CVS Caremark	16.56⁵	117.49	73.6	58	157
79	Aubrey K McClendon	Chesapeake Energy	16.55⁵	307.02	98.3	50	161
80	Robert L Parkinson Jr	Baxter International	16.42	40.51	17.7	60	78
81	R David Yost	AmerisourceBergen	16.37	44.65	56.9	64	30
82	Michael T Duke	Wal-Mart Stores	16.27⁵	-	36.8	60	-
83	James A C Kennedy	T Rowe Price	15.97	54.73	163.6	58	-
84	Daniel J Starks	St Jude Medical	15.95⁵	82.92	311.9	57	-
85	Richard W Dreiling	Dollar General	15.89⁵	-	9.6	58	-
86	Miles D White	Abbott Laboratories	15.51	117.50	61.5	56	187
87	James L Dolan	Cablevision Systems	15.33⁵	85.62	41.0	55	64
88	Jeffrey L Bewkes	Time Warner	15.31⁵	48.47³	10.0	58	-
89	W Benjamin Moreland	Crown Castle Intl	15.21⁵	-	35.5	47	-
90	K Rupert Murdoch	News Corp	15.20	107.85	5,325.8	80	178
91	Carol Bartz	Yahoo	15.16⁵	-	27.0	62	-
92	Mark Donegan	Precision Castparts	15.10	87.17	31.8	53	15
93	William P Sullivan	Agilent Technologies	14.92	53.68	14.0	62	89
94	Glenn M Renwick	Progressive	14.81	44.10	70.9	55	110
95	Gale E Klappa	Wisconsin Energy	14.75	35.94	6.4	60	47
96	Sanjay K Jha	Motorola Moity	14.70	-	26.8	48	-
97	Mark G Parker	NIKE	14.53	43.83	21.6	55	-
98	Robert J Stevens	Lockheed Martin	14.47	120.77	32.3	59	143
99	Stephen A Roell	Johnson Controls	14.27	43.58²	28.0	61	-
100	Michael H Thaman	Owens Corning	14.26	25.66²	25.7	47	-

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