Women chief executives earned big bucks last year, but there's still very few of them running the world's largest companies. By comparison, male CEOs earned $11.4 million, also up 9%. But the number of women in CEO roles has barely budged. To calculate pay, Equilar added salary, bonus, perks, stock awards, stock option awards and other types of compensation. Burns, who earned $13.1 million as CEO last year, retired as chairman of Xerox Corp.’s board this week.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 24, 2017 15:56 UTC