James Chao
2016
In 2016, James Chao earned a total compensation of $5.5M as Chairman at Westlake Chemical, a 4% increase compared to previous year.
Compensation breakdown
| Non-Equity Incentive Plan | $3,105,291 |
|---|---|
| Option Awards | $762,000 |
| Salary | $783,667 |
| Stock Awards | $762,000 |
| Other | $61,488 |
| Total | $5,474,446 |
Chao received $3.1M in non-equity incentive plan, accounting for 57% of the total pay in 2016.
Chao also received $762K in option awards, $783.7K in salary, $762K in stock awards and $61.5K in other compensation.
Rankings
In 2016, James Chao's compensation ranked 1,395th out of 14,075 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Chao earned more than 90.1% of executives.
| Classification | Ranking | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
All | 1,395 out of 14,075 | 90th |
Division Manufacturing | 470 out of 5,486 | 91st |
Major group Chemicals And Allied Products | 129 out of 1,900 | 93rd |
Industry group Industrial Organic Chemicals | 4 out of 72 | 94th |
Source: SEC filing on April 7, 2017.
Chao's colleagues
We found five more compensation records of executives who worked with James Chao at Westlake Chemical in 2016.
2016
Albert Chao
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Chief Executive Officer
2016
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Former Vice President, Building Products
2016
M Bender
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Chief Financial Officer
2016
Vinyls Buesinger
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Executive Vice President, Vinyl Products
2016
Robert Buesinger
Westlake Chemical