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CEO pay is determined by a company’s board of directors. Those directors are compensated for the time they spend shaping the company’s strategy. Here’s what the Fortune 100 executives paid each other from 2008 to 2012.

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Susan desmond hellmann

Susan Desmond-Hellmann

Susan Desmond-Hellmann

  • Between 2008 and 2012 she made
  • $337,731
  • as a director, more than 20% of all directors
  • Paid CEOs an average of
  • $15,198,597
  • in the last year of her directorship, more than 52% of all directors
  • Decreased CEO pay by an average of
  • $989,440
  • between 2008 and 2012, only 28% of directors decreased pay more
  • Shares of her companies increased by
  • 7.4%
  • between 2008 and 2012, better performance than 43% of all directors

The Susan Desmond-Hellmann Stock Index

From December 2010 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Susan Desmond-Hellmann joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a 7.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a 15.0 percent return from the S&P 500.

Susan Desmond-Hellmann's companies

Procter & Gamble

Dec. 13, 2010 to July 26, 2016

Other board members at Procter & Gamble during this time were Angela F. Braly, Ernesto Zedillo, Johnathan A. Rodgers and 7 more.

Her Yearly Compensation
Yearly Payments to CEOs
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  • Stock Performance is the difference between a director's stock index and the S&P 500.
  • A director's stock index is an unweighted index of company stock performances while they sat on the board.
  • CEO pay includes salary, bonuses, stock sales, and other payments.
  • Average CEO Pay is calculated using the last year a director sat on the board of each company.
  • Stock returns do not include dividends.
  • All directors refers to people who sat on the board of at least one Fortune 100 company between 2008 and 2012.

The Pay Pals project relies on financial research conducted by the Center for Economic Policy and Research.

Sources: Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, Procter & Gamble SEC filings (2011, 2012).

By Shane Shifflett, Jay Boice, Hilary Fung and Aaron Bycoffe