Gary C. Kelly

2019

In 2019, Gary C. Kelly earned a total compensation of $8.8M as Chairman of the Board Chief Executive Officer at Southwest Airlines, a 14% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Bonus$300,000
Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$89,191
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$967,200
Salary$750,000
Stock Awards$6,374,951
Other$289,782
Total$8,771,124

Kelly received $6.4M in stock awards, accounting for 73% of the total pay in 2019.

Kelly also received $300K in bonus, $89.2K of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $967.2K in non-equity incentive plan, $750K in salary and $289.8K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2019, Gary C. Kelly's compensation ranked 944th out of 13,971 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Kelly earned more than 93.2% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
944
out of 13,971
93rd
Division
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
92
out of 895
90th
Major group
Transportation By Air
8
out of 63
87th
Industry group
Air Transportation, Scheduled, And Air Courier
8
out of 58
86th
Industry
Air Transportation, Scheduled
6
out of 51
88th

Pay ratio

Gary C. Kelly's Pay$8,771,124
Median Employee's Pay$101,302
Pay Ratio

87

to 1

In 2019, the annual total compensation of Gary C. Kelly was $8,771,124.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Southwest Airlines was $101,302.

The ratio of Gary C. Kelly's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 87 to one.

Source: SEC filing on April 9, 2020.

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