No promoting holding firm CEO earned extra in 2024 than Omnicom’s John Wren.
In 2024, Wren’s complete compensation—which incorporates wage, bonus, fairness awards, and different types of cost—amounted to $21.67 million, in response to public filings analyzed by govt intelligence agency Equilar.
IPG’s Philippe Krakowsky took house $16.43 million throughout the identical interval, making him the second-highest earner.
Each males made extra money than typical for somebody of their place. Further figures from Equilar present that the median CEO who runs an organization listed within the S&P 500 acquired $16.41 million in complete compensation for 2024.
Omnicom is ready to purchase rival IPG someday later this yr. If the deal closes, Wren will stay CEO, whereas Krakowsky will turn into co-president and COO alongside Omnicom’s Daryl Simm.
When evaluating CEO compensation to the median employee’s earnings, Wren and Krakowsky topped the checklist but once more.
Final yr, Wren made 494 instances greater than an Omnicom worker situated on the center of the corporate’s pay scale, or median pay. Krakowsky’s CEO-to-worker pay ratio was 218:1.
These ratios exceeded the 2024 S&P 500 median. Utilizing S&P 500 corporations as a benchmark, the median hole between chief govt and worker compensation was 197:1.
When it comes to each complete compensation and CEO-to-employee pay ratios, S4 Capital’s Martin Sorrell got here in final place, incomes $622,231 at eight instances greater than the median employees member.
These figures, nonetheless, don’t account for fairness earned earlier than the yr in query. As founder and chair of the board, Sorrell can be a considerable shareholder of S4 Capital, proudly owning slightly below 9% of the corporate.
On account of restricted disclosures or differing methodologies, pay ratios for Havas’ Yannick Bollore, Publicis’ Arthur Sadoun, and WPP’s Mark Learn weren’t included on this evaluation.
