James J. Volker

2016

In 2016, James J. Volker earned a total compensation of $5.5M as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Whiting Petroleum, a 39% decrease compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Non-Equity Incentive Plan$1,200,000
Salary$800,000
Stock Awards$3,504,000
Other$2,194
Total$5,506,194

Volker received $3.5M in stock awards, accounting for 64% of the total pay in 2016.

Volker also received $1.2M in non-equity incentive plan, $800K in salary and $2.2K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2016, James J. Volker's compensation ranked 1,380th out of 14,075 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Volker earned more than 90.2% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
1,380
out of 14,075
90th
Division
Mining
68
out of 597
89th
Major group
Oil And Gas Extraction
56
out of 453
88th
Industry group
Crude Petroleum And Natural Gas
39
out of 313
88th
Industry
Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas
39
out of 313
88th
Source: SEC filing on March 20, 2017.

Volker's colleagues

We found four more compensation records of executives who worked with James J. Volker at Whiting Petroleum in 2016.

2016

Michael Stevens

Whiting Petroleum

Chief Financial Officer

2016

Mark Williams

Whiting Petroleum

Senior Vice President, Exploration and Development

2016

Rick Ross

Whiting Petroleum

Senior Vice President, Operations

2016

Peter Hagist

Whiting Petroleum

Senior Vice President, Planning

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