$210,500
Communications: $210,100
Hardware/Semiconductors: $203,900
Software: $189,700
Digital Media/Content/Information: $171,800
Life Sciences
Therapeutics $287,000
Medical devices: $266,900
Tools/Instrumentation: $215,700
—2009 CEO pay by sector and region (includes founders and non-founders):
Life Sciences
Mid-Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA): $288,500
California: $285,100
New England: $276,900
Midwest: $239,300
West (excludes California and includes Washington and Oregon): $234,600
Southeast: $225,100
Technology
New England: $207,200
Midwest: $202,600
California: $193,800
Southeast: $192,100
Mid-Atlantic: $190,100
West: $184,900
J. Robert Scott’s Lapat told me not to read too much into the regional differences in pay, since other factors such as the number of employees at a firm and the maturity of a company can have a greater impact on compensation than geography.
