Gary C. Kelly

2018

In 2018, Gary C. Kelly earned a total compensation of $7.7M as Chairman of the Board Chief Executive Officer at Southwest Airlines, a 2% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Bonus$300,000
Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$72,712
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$1,118,400
Salary$750,000
Stock Awards$5,250,019
Other$235,324
Total$7,726,455

Kelly received $5.3M in stock awards, accounting for 68% of the total pay in 2018.

Kelly also received $300K in bonus, $72.7K of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $1.1M in non-equity incentive plan, $750K in salary and $235.3K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2018, Gary C. Kelly's compensation ranked 1,072nd out of 14,244 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Kelly earned more than 92.5% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
1,072
out of 14,244
93rd
Division
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
115
out of 918
88th
Major group
Transportation By Air
5
out of 68
93rd
Industry group
Air Transportation, Scheduled, And Air Courier
5
out of 56
91st
Industry
Air Transportation, Scheduled
3
out of 44
93rd

Pay ratio

Gary C. Kelly's Pay$7,726,455
Median Employee's Pay$78,494
Pay Ratio

98

to 1

In 2018, the annual total compensation of Gary C. Kelly was $7,726,455.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Southwest Airlines was $78,494.

The ratio of Gary C. Kelly's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 98 to one.

Source: SEC filing on April 5, 2019.

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