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Meet the highest-paid CFOs of 2023

Meet the highest-paid CFOs of 2023
The top-paid CFOs by total compensation for 2023 are, from left, Zoom's Kelly Steckelberg, John David Rainey at Walmart and Jean Hu, Advanced Micro Devices. (Image: Supplied)
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By Jennifer WilliamsFinance chiefs at US companies are enjoying fatter pay packets as stock-based incentives pushed up executive compensation in 2023.  Chief financial officers’ median pay rose 8.45% in 2023 from the previous year, to roughly US$1.8 million (NZ$2.9m), according to a review of CFO pay at more than 3,200 public companies by C-Suite Comp, an executive and board pay analytics firm. After finance chiefs’ pay soared in 2021, median compensation in 2022 and 2023 returned to the historical trend line, data showed....

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