How many times the average annual salary are Australia's CEOs paid?

The average annual full-time salary is $81,921 pre-tax, based on the most recent ABS weekly wage data (May 2016).

While the salary for all of the listed CEOs is already over ten times the annual wage of the average Australian, CEO take home pay is highly affected by bonuses and equity allocation.

For instance, the annual pay packet for CommBank CEO, Ian Narev, goes from 32 times to 106 times the average annual wage when his bonus and equity are taken into account.

Salary Salary & bonus Total (salary, bonus & equity)

Nine Entertainment

41 times

Wesfarmers

32 times

CommBank

32 times

Seven West Media

31 times

Origin

28 times

BHP Billiton*

28 times

Newcrest*

28 times

Ramsay Health Care

28 times

Sonic Health Care

25 times

Harvey Norman

24 times

Fortescue

23 times

CSL

21 times

Woolworths

20 times

South 32

19 times

Fairfax

18 times

Whitehaven

18 times

WorleyParsons

14 times

JB Hifi

13 times

Sthn Cross Austereo

11 times

Nine Entertainment

*Converted from Australian dollars based on May 2016 average conversion rate.

CEOs chosen from companies with largest market capitalisation on the ASX 200 across a variety of different sectors.
Companies that report only in the US or out of cycle were not included.