Douglas Merritt
2020
In 2020, Douglas Merritt earned a total compensation of $15.7M as President, CEO and Director at Splunk, a 16% increase compared to previous year.
Compensation breakdown
| Non-Equity Incentive Plan | $874,125 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $675,000 |
| Stock Awards | $14,100,955 |
| Other | $60,565 |
| Total | $15,710,645 |
Merritt received $14.1M in stock awards, accounting for 90% of the total pay in 2020.
Merritt also received $874.1K in non-equity incentive plan, $675K in salary and $60.6K in other compensation.
Rankings
In 2020, Douglas Merritt's compensation ranked 370th out of 13,090 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Merritt earned more than 97.2% of executives.
| Classification | Ranking | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
All | 370 out of 13,090 | 97th |
Division Services | 119 out of 2,341 | 95th |
Major group Business Services | 89 out of 1,540 | 94th |
Industry group Computer Programming, Data Processing, And Other Computer Related Services | 69 out of 1,061 | 94th |
Industry Prepackaged Software | 36 out of 579 | 94th |
Pay ratio
| Douglas Merritt's Pay | $15,710,645 |
|---|---|
| Median Employee's Pay | $264,305 |
| Pay Ratio | 59to 1 |
In 2020, the annual total compensation of Douglas Merritt was $15,710,645.
The annual total compensation of the median employee at Splunk was $264,305.
The ratio of Douglas Merritt's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 59 to one.
Source: SEC filing on April 28, 2020.
Merritt's colleagues
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