Gary B. Smith

2019

In 2019, Gary B. Smith earned a total compensation of $11M as President and CEO at Ciena, a 21% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Non-Equity Incentive Plan$1,959,375
Salary$1,010,344
Stock Awards$8,030,246
Other$16,400
Total$11,016,365

Smith received $8M in stock awards, accounting for 73% of the total pay in 2019.

Smith also received $2M in non-equity incentive plan, $1M in salary and $16.4K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2019, Gary B. Smith's compensation ranked 631st out of 13,971 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Smith earned more than 95.5% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
631
out of 13,971
96th
Division
Manufacturing
224
out of 5,692
96th
Major group
Electronic And Other Electrical Equipment And Components, Except Computer Equipment
33
out of 728
96th
Industry group
Communications Equipment
6
out of 191
97th
Industry
Telephone and Telegraph Apparatus
1
out of 64
98th

Pay ratio

Gary B. Smith's Pay$11,016,365
Median Employee's Pay$113,412
Pay Ratio

97

to 1

In 2019, the annual total compensation of Gary B. Smith was $11,016,365.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Ciena was $113,412.

The ratio of Gary B. Smith's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 97 to one.

Source: SEC filing on February 19, 2020.

Smith's colleagues

We found five more compensation records of executives who worked with Gary B. Smith at Ciena in 2019.

2019

James Moylan

Ciena

Chief Financial Officer

2019

James Frodsham

Ciena

Former SVP and Chief Strategy Officer

2019

Jason Phipps

Ciena

SVP, Global Sales and Marketing

2019

Scott McFeely

Ciena

SVP, Global Products and Services

2019

David Rothenstein

Ciena

General Counsel

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