The highest-paid CEOs by state

Here are the top-paid CEOs by state for 2020, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. The survey considered only publicly traded companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that filed their proxy statements with federal regulators between Jan. 1 and April 30. Not every state has such a company headquartered there. The survey includes only CEOs who have been in place for at least two years, but it does not limit the survey to companies in the S&P 500, as the AP's general compensation study does. To calculate CEO pay, Equilar adds salary, bonus, stock awards, stock option awards, deferred compensation and other components that include benefits and perks. For some companies, big raises can occur when CEOs get a stock grant in one year as part of a multi-year grant. Median pay for S&P 500 CEOs was $12.7 million last year. Median means half made more, and half made less. Alabama: Edward K. Aldag, Jr., Medical Properties Trust, $16.9 million Arizona: Joseph M. Hogan, Align Technology, $15.5 million Arkansas: C. Douglas McMillon, Walmart, $22.6 million California: Tony Xu, DoorDash, $413.7 million Colorado: Alexander Karp, Palantir Technologies, $1.1 billion Connecticut: Thomas M. Rutledge, Charter Communications, $38.7 million Delaware: Hervé Hoppenot, Incyte, $16.4 million Washington, D.C.: Andrew C. Florance, CoStar Group, $21.3 million Florida: Frank J. Del Rio, Norwegian Cruise Line, $31.9 million Georgia: Michael Hayford, NCR, $28.3 million. Hawaii: Matthew J. Cox, Matson, $5.1 million Illinois: Gregory Q. Brown , Motorola Solutions, $23 million Indiana: David Ricks, Eli Lilly, $17.8 million Iowa: Daniel Houston, Principal Financial Group, $11.6 million Kansas: Adam M. Aron, AMC Entertainment, $16.9 million Kentucky: Bruce D. Broussard, Humana, $16.5 million Louisiana: Jeffrey K. Storey, Lumen Technologies, $17 million Maine: Melissa Smith, WEX, $16.3 million Maryland: David Zaslav, Discovery, $37.7 million Massachusetts: Larry Culp, General Electric, $72.7 million Michigan: Jay Farner, Rocket Companies Inc., $51.7 million Minnesota: Brian C. Cornell, Target, $19.8 million Mississippi: Joe Sanderson, Jr., Sanderson Farms, $4.5 million Missouri: Michael Neidorff, Centene, $25 million Nebraska: Lance Fritz, Union Pacific, $13.4 million Nevada: Matt Maddox, Wynn Resorts, $18.2 million New Hampshire: G. Manning Rountree, White Mountains Insurance, $7.2 million New Jersey: Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson, $23.1 million New Mexico: Patricia K. Collawn, PNM Resources, $9 million New York: Joseph Levin, IAC/InterActiveCorp, $189.5 million North Carolina: Brian T. Moynihan, Bank of America, $25.4 million North Dakota: David L. Goodin, MDU Resources Group, $6 million Ohio: Kevin Stein, TransDigm Group, $22.1 million Oklahoma: Chad Richison, Paycom Software, $211.1 million Oregon: Bryan DeBoer, Lithia Motors, $8.3 million Pennsylvania: Brian L. Roberts, Comcast, $32.7 million Rhode Island: Brian Goldner, Hasbro, $16.4 million South Carolina: John D. Williams, Domtar, $6.7 million South Dakota: Linden R. Evans, Black Hills, $4.1 million. Tennessee: Samuel N. Hazen, HCA Healthcare, $18.1 million Texas: Perry A. Sook, Nexstar Media , $23.6 million Utah: Todd R. Pedersen, Vivint Smart Home, $30.1 million Virginia: Richard D. Fairbank, Capital One Financial, $20.1 million Washington: Clay B. Siegall, Seagen, $16.5 million Wisconsin: Kevin Conroy, Exact Sciences, $20.1 million