CEO average pay climbed more than $1 million in 2016 By: MarketWatch April 12, 2017 at 16:05 PM EDT The Equilar 100 annual survey found that 2016 was a good year for CEO pay, with average compensation of $16.6 million. Read More >> Related Stocks: Apple Berkshire Hathaway Charter Communications Inc GX Defense Tech ETF Goldman Sachs Group Hewlett Packard Enterprise Comp Nike Inc Oracle Corp Standard & Poors 500 Walt Disney