| Company name (CEO name) | Compensation in million U.S. dollars |
|---|---|
| Merck & Co. (Ken Frazier) | 20.9 |
| Johnson & Johnson (Alex Gorsky) | 20.1 |
| Pfizer (Ian Read) | 19.5 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb (Giovanni Caforio) | 19.4 |
| Eli Lilly (David Ricks) | 17.2 |
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Source
Release date
May 2019
Region
Worldwide
Survey time period
2018
Number of respondents
base: 200 life sciences companies
Special properties
large pharmaceutical companies
Supplementary notes
For the report, BioPharma Dive explicitly grouped firms in these 3 categories:
Large cap biotech: Market capitalization greater than $10 billion.
Mid-sized biotech: Market capitalization between $2 billion and $10 billion.
Small biotech: Market capitalization between $500 million and $2 billion.
This statistic is for large companies worth more than $10 billion.
CEO compensation includes base salary, cash bonuses and long-term
stock and option awards, as described in annual proxy filings.
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