Top Rhode Island CEO Pay
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Top Rhode Island CEO Pay
The new numbers are out on the top paid CEOs of publicly traded companies, and seven Rhode Island-tied top executives made the list.
Of the seven linked to Rhode Island, one of those CEOs is moving the company out of state.
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Chris Cocks, the CEO of Hasbro, made the list. He is in the process of moving the 100-plus-year-old toy company to Boston.
Three other companies, CVS, Textron, and Citizens Bank, are homegrown.
And three others have other close ties.
Of the seven who made the list, one made the top 10 in the country. And the least any of the CEO’s made was $13 million.
Regardless of their compensation, all of them saw pay increases of 7% or more.
The data was compiled by the Wall Street Journal in coordination with MyLogIQ (pay); ISS and FactSet (market returns); S&P Global (industry classification).
SEE THE LIST BELOW
2026 CEO Pay
Citizens Bank
#303
Bruce Van Saun
Citizens Financial Group (CFG)
$13 million
17.7% increase
Median Employee Pay: $80,559
PPL
#293
Vincent Sorgi
PPL (PPL), parent company of Rhode Island Energy
$13 million
16.4% increase
Median Employee Pay: $178,625
Hasbro
#185
Christian Cocks
Hasbro (HAS) Moving out of Rhode Island
$19 million
10.9% increase
Median Employee Pay: $113,241
Textron
#152
Scott Donnelly
Textron (TXT)
$21 million
7.7% increase
Median Employee Pay: $111,269
CVS
#151
J. David Joyner
CVS Health (CVS)
$21 million
19.1% increase
Median Employee Pay: $63,262
Bank of America / Brown University
#50
Brian Moynihan
Bank of America (BAC), Chancellor Brown University
$34 million
17.3% increase
Median Employee Pay: $123,990
Blackstone
#6
Stephen Schwarzman
Blackstone (BX), Newport summer resident
$126 million
49.5% increase
Median Employee Pay: $275,000
