Some of the biggest CEO paydays last year don’t appear in the WSJ’s rankings, either because the companies aren’t part of the S&P 500 index or because of the timing of their fiscal year. Here’s a look at five companies whose leaders would have ranked near the top:Elon Musk, Tesla Inc. The electric-car company awarded options valued at $2.28 billion to its founder and CEO last year—an amount roughly equivalent to the combined 2018 compensation of the 92 top-paid CEOs in the Journal’s rankings. (Tesla isn’t in the S&P...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 17, 2019 15:56 UTC