James A. Squires

2015

In 2015, James A. Squires earned a total compensation of $8M as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Norfolk Southern, a 35% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$1,036,596
Option Awards$4,375,050
Salary$837,500
Stock Awards$1,625,268
Other$115,151
Total$7,989,565

Squires received $4.4M in option awards, accounting for 55% of the total pay in 2015.

Squires also received $1M of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $837.5K in salary, $1.6M in stock awards and $115.2K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2015, James A. Squires' compensation ranked 784th out of 13,638 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Squires earned more than 94.3% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
784
out of 13,638
94th
Division
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
96
out of 1,025
91st
Major group
Railroad Transportation
3
out of 28
89th
Industry group
Railroads
3
out of 28
89th
Industry
Railroads, Line-Haul Operating
3
out of 28
89th
Source: SEC filing on March 22, 2017.

Squires' colleagues

We found four more compensation records of executives who worked with James A. Squires at Norfolk Southern in 2015.

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Marta Stewart

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Chief Financial Officer

2015

Mark Manion

Norfolk Southern

Chief Operating Officer

2015

James Hixon

Norfolk Southern

Former Executive Vice President Law and Corporate Relations

2015

Cynthia Earhart

Norfolk Southern

Executive Vice President Administration and Chief Information Officer

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