Kenneth C. Frazier

2019

In 2019, Kenneth C. Frazier earned a total compensation of $27.6M as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Merck & Co., a 32% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$5,078,147
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$4,609,200
Option Awards$4,500,763
Salary$1,659,482
Stock Awards$11,425,398
Other$375,485
Total$27,648,475

Frazier received $11.4M in stock awards, accounting for 41% of the total pay in 2019.

Frazier also received $5.1M of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $4.6M in non-equity incentive plan, $4.5M in option awards, $1.7M in salary and $375.5K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2019, Kenneth C. Frazier's compensation ranked 60th out of 13,971 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Frazier earned more than 99.6% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
60
out of 13,971
100th
Division
Manufacturing
18
out of 5,692
100th
Major group
Chemicals And Allied Products
4
out of 2,189
100th
Industry group
Drugs
4
out of 1,875
100th
Industry
Pharmaceutical Preparations
3
out of 1,387
100th

Pay ratio

Kenneth C. Frazier's Pay$27,648,475
Median Employee's Pay$95,621
Pay Ratio

289

to 1

In 2019, the annual total compensation of Kenneth C. Frazier was $27,648,475.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Merck & Co. was $95,621.

The ratio of Kenneth C. Frazier's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 289 to one.

Source: SEC filing on April 6, 2020.

Frazier's colleagues

We found four more compensation records of executives who worked with Kenneth C. Frazier at Merck & Co. in 2019.

2019

Roger Perlmutter

Merck & Co.

M.D., Ph.D. Executive Vice President and President, Merck Research Laboratories

2019

Robert Davis

Merck & Co.

Chief Financial Officer

2019

Sanat Chattopadhyay

Merck & Co.

Executive Vice President and President, Merck Manufacturing Division

2019

Jennifer Zachary

Merck & Co.

General Counsel

News

You may also like