David Bruton Smith

2021

In 2021, David Bruton Smith earned a total compensation of $6.5M as Chief Executive Officer at Sonic Automotive, a 29% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Bonus$222,728
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$1,948,867
Salary$1,113,638
Stock Awards$3,062,716
Other$163,294
Total$6,511,243

Smith received $3.1M in stock awards, accounting for 47% of the total pay in 2021.

Smith also received $222.7K in bonus, $1.9M in non-equity incentive plan, $1.1M in salary and $163.3K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2021, David Bruton Smith's compensation ranked 1,927th out of 12,397 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Smith earned more than 84.5% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
1,927
out of 12,397
85th
Division
Retail Trade
102
out of 680
85th
Major group
Automotive Dealers And Gasoline Service Stations
16
out of 95
83rd

Pay ratio

David Bruton Smith's Pay$6,511,243
Median Employee's Pay$61,413
Pay Ratio

106

to 1

In 2021, the annual total compensation of David Bruton Smith was $6,511,243.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Sonic Automotive was $61,413.

The ratio of David Bruton Smith's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 106 to one.

Source: SEC filing on March 18, 2022.

Smith's colleagues

We found three more compensation records of executives who worked with David Bruton Smith at Sonic Automotive in 2021.

2021

Jeff Dyke

Sonic Automotive

President

2021

Heath Byrd

Sonic Automotive

Chief Financial Officer

2021

O Smith

Sonic Automotive

Chairman

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