1 The Northern Pacific Railway (NP) completed the third independent transcontinental railroad on August 22, 1883, linking Chicago with Seattle. 2  The Completion Ceremony was held on September 8, 1883, with former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant contributing to driving the Final Spike.
The average pay package last year was $22.6 million, up from $20.7 million in 2013, according to an analysis of companies' proxy disclosures by executive-compensation data firm Equilar. The average gain in total compensation for the 200 highest-paid U.S. CEOs worked out to 9.1 percent last year.
The average CEO salary for companies of this size and magnitude falls somewhere around $2.5 million per year. Generally, this salary is not inclusive of stock options and other benefits, some of which might add as much as $10 million extra to a CEOâs total compensation package and overall net worth.ith salaries that start almost universally above $200,000 per year, the average CEO makes a healthy wage and is the top earner for their corporation.