Here are the top-paid CEOs by state for 2016, 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 May 1. It includes CEOs who have been in place for at least two years. Not every state had a publicly traded company headquartered there that was large enough to be included.
To calculate CEO pay, Equilar adds salary, bonus, stock awards, stock option awards, deferred compensation and other components that include benefits and perks.
The typical CEO in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index made $11.5 million last year.
Alabama: Grayson Hall, Regions Financial, $8 million
Arizona: Richard C. Adkerson, Freeport-McMoRan, $14 million
Arkansas: Doug McMillon, Wal-Mart Stores, $22.4 million
California: Robert A. Iger, Walt Disney, $41 million
Colorado: Greg Maffei, Liberty Media and Liberty Interactive, $30.2 million
Connecticut: Tom Rutledge, Charter Communications, $98 million
Delaware: Hervé Hoppenot, Incyte, $11.8 million
Florida: Brian Jellison, Roper Technologies, $26.3 million
Georgia: Ron Clarke, Fleetcor Technologies, $21.7 million
Hawaii: Matt Cox, Matson, $3.9 million
Idaho: Darrel Anderson, IDACORP, $3.5 million
Illinois: Richard A. Gonzalez, AbbVie, $18 million
Indiana: Joseph Swedish, Anthem, $16.5 million
Iowa: Stan Askren, HNI, $5.9 million
Kansas: Michael J. Brown, Euronet Worldwide, $6.4 million
Kentucky: Greg Creed, Yum Brands, $15.4 million
Louisiana: Glen F. Post III, CenturyLink, $13.6 million
Maine: Jonathan Ayers, IDEXX Laboratories, $5.9 million
Maryland: David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $37.2 million
Massachusetts: Jeffrey R. Immelt, General Electric, $18 million
Michigan: Mary Barra, General Motors, $22.4 million
Minnesota: Stephen J. Hemsley, UnitedHealth Group, $15.7 million
Mississippi: Joe F. Sanderson Jr., Sanderson Farms, $3.8 million
Missouri: Michael F. Neidorff, Centene Corp., $22 million
Nebraska: Fredric J. Tomczyk, TD Ameritrade Holding, $11.4 million (Tomczyk retired in September.)
Nevada: Stephen A. Wynn, Wynn Resorts, $28.2 million
New Hampshire: Tim McGrath, PC Connection, $3.9 million
New Jersey: Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson, $21.9 million
New Mexico: Pat Vincent-Collawn, PNM Resources, $4 million
New York: Leslie Moonves, CBS, $68.6 million
North Carolina: Brian Moynihan, Bank of America, $15.5 million
North Dakota: David L. Goodin, MDU Resources Group, $3.3 million
Ohio: W. Nicholas Howley, TransDigm Group, $18.7 million
Oklahoma: Doug Lawler, Chesapeake Energy, $15.3 million
Oregon: Andrew C. Teich, FLIR Systems, $5.1 million (Teich is retiring in June.)
Pennsylvania: Brian L. Roberts, Comcast, $33 million
Rhode Island: Larry Merlo, CVS Health, $18.4 million
South Carolina: John D. Williams, Domtar, $7.2 million
South Dakota: David R. Emery, Black Hills, $4.1 million
Tennessee: Kenneth W. Lowe, Scripps Networks Interactive, $26.8 million
Texas: Randall Stephenson, AT&T, $25.3 million
Utah: Truman Hunt, Nu Skin Enterprises, $10.3 million (Hunt stepped down as CEO in March.)
Virginia: Marty Barrington, Altria Group, $24.2 million
Washington, D.C.: Thomas P. Joyce Jr. Danaher, $13 million
Washington: Howard Schultz, Starbucks, $21.8 million (Schultz stepped down as CEO in April.)
Wisconsin: Jeffery Yabuki, Fiserv, $21.2 million