John C. May

2021

In 2021, John C. May earned a total compensation of $19.9M as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at John Deere, a 28% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$741,736
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$8,055,803
Option Awards$3,298,699
Salary$1,429,174
Stock Awards$5,991,488
Other$395,926
Total$19,912,826

May received $8.1M in non-equity incentive plan, accounting for 40% of the total pay in 2021.

May also received $741.7K of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $3.3M in option awards, $1.4M in salary, $6M in stock awards and $395.9K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2021, John C. May's compensation ranked 328th out of 12,397 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, May earned more than 97.4% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
328
out of 12,397
97th
Division
Manufacturing
96
out of 5,492
98th
Major group
Industrial And Commercial Machinery And Computer Equipment
12
out of 363
97th
Industry group
Farm And Garden Machinery And Equipment
1
out of 17
94th
Industry
Farm Machinery and Equipment
1
out of 12
92nd

Pay ratio

John C. May's Pay$19,912,826
Median Employee's Pay$82,240
Pay Ratio

242

to 1

In 2021, the annual total compensation of John C. May was $19,912,826.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at John Deere was $82,240.

The ratio of John C. May's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 242 to one.

Source: SEC filing on January 7, 2022.

May's colleagues

We found four more compensation records of executives who worked with John C. May at John Deere in 2021.

2021

Marc Howze

John Deere

Chief Administrative Officer

2021

Ryan Campbell

John Deere

Chief Financial Officer

2021

Cory Reed

John Deere

President, Worldwide Agriculture & Turf Division, Production & Precision Agriculture, Americas and Australia

2021

Rajesh Kalathur

John Deere

President, John Deere Financial and Chief Information Officer

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