Nicholas K. Akins

2020

In 2020, Nicholas K. Akins earned a total compensation of $15.5M as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at American Electric Power Co., a 7% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$698,612
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$3,500,000
Salary$1,521,615
Stock Awards$9,615,116
Other$168,091
Total$15,503,434

Akins received $9.6M in stock awards, accounting for 62% of the total pay in 2020.

Akins also received $698.6K of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $3.5M in non-equity incentive plan, $1.5M in salary and $168.1K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2020, Nicholas K. Akins' compensation ranked 378th out of 13,090 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Akins earned more than 97.1% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
378
out of 13,090
97th
Division
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
32
out of 772
96th
Major group
Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
5
out of 305
98th
Industry group
Electric Services
4
out of 89
96th
Industry
Electric Services
4
out of 89
96th

Pay ratio

Nicholas K. Akins' Pay$15,503,434
Median Employee's Pay$140,965
Pay Ratio

110

to 1

In 2020, the annual total compensation of Nicholas K. Akins was $15,503,434.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at American Electric Power Co. was $140,965.

The ratio of Nicholas K. Akins' pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 110 to one.

Source: SEC filing on March 10, 2021.

Akins' colleagues

We found six more compensation records of executives who worked with Nicholas K. Akins at American Electric Power Co. in 2020.

2020

Brian Tierney

American Electric Power Co.

Chief Financial Officer

2020

Lana Hillebrand

American Electric Power Co.

Chief Administrative Officer

2020

Lisa Barton

American Electric Power Co.

Executive Vice President- Utilities

2020

David Feinberg

American Electric Power Co.

General Counsel

2020

Mark McCullough

American Electric Power Co.

Former Executive Vice President - Energy Delivery

2020

Charles Zebula

American Electric Power Co.

Executive Vice President - Portfolio Optimization

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