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CEO Pay Surged in a Year of Upheaval, Leadership Hurdles

Norwegian Cruise Line CEO Frank Del Rio’s pay doubled last year to $36.4 million, in part with bonuses tied to a contract extension. (Photo: Josh Ritchie)

CEO pay surged in 2020, a year of historic business upheaval, a wrenching labor market for many workers and unprecedented challenges for many leaders.

Median pay for the chief executives of more than 300 of the biggest U.S. public companies reached $13.7 million last year, up from $12.8 million for the same companies a year earlier and on track for a record, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.

Pay kept climbing in 2020 as some companies moved performance targets or modified pay structures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and accompanying economic pain. Salary cuts CEOs took at the depths of the crisis had little effect. The stock market’s…

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