Seattle area CEOs raking in cash
May 22, 2012, 12:45 PM | Updated: 3:30 pm
Compared to the rest of the country, CEOs in the Seattle-
Everett-Bellevue area are still raking it in.
The average salary of the area’s CEOs cracked the major
metropolitan areas top 25, according to the Puget Sound Business
Journal.
Coming in at 22, the average CEO in Seattle, Everett or
Bellevue makes $209,480 annually. While that seems like a
lot of walking around money, it’s not enough to crack the
top 10.
Those wealthy head-of-companies are largely dominated by
the East Coast and include Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick,
MD; Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ; Winston-Salem, NC; Danbury, CT;
New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ; San Jose-Sunnyvale-
Santa Clara, CA; Durham-Chapel Hill, NC; Medford, OR;
Columbus, IN; and Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT at
number one with an average annual CEO take-home of
$234,030.
The PSBJ looked at 362 markets in total. Tacoma came in at
62, with an average CEO annual paycheck of $193,750.
