Median compensation for CEOs of Richmond region's largest companies: $3.529 million in 2016 (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
June 26, 2017
The chief executive officers of 18 publicly traded companies based in the Richmond region earned average compensation of almost $5.7 million in 2016, but only one of the local CEOs made enough to be listed among the 200 top-paid corporate chiefs in the United States.
The top-paid CEO among the Richmond-area companies was Martin J. Barrington of tobacco giant Altria Group Inc., who earned a total compensation package valued at about $24.2 million, up 126 percent from 2015.