American Water Works Company: Pay

American Water Works Company paid its 7 named executives $28.3M in total in FY2025 (Dec). CEO John C. Griffith was paid $7.1M of that.

PayNo stock prices for these years
CEO pay is from each proxy. The stock line is the value of $100 put in the stock at the start, from the price change of each fiscal year. Dividends are not in it.

Pay of each named executive

John C. GriffithPresident and Chief Executive Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
4 years
Cheryl NortonExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
5 years
M. Susan HardwickFormer Chief Executive Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
5 years
David M. BowlerExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
2 years
Stacy A. MitchellExecutive Vice President and General Counsel
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
2 years
Maureen DuffyExecutive Vice President, Communications and External Affairs
FY2025 (Dec)
1 year
Melanie M. KennedyFormer Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
5 years

CEO pay against the pay peers

In FY2024 (Dec), the median CEO pay of the 9 peers with pay on file was $11.0M. The CEO of American Water Works Company was paid $8.6M, 22% below the median.

  1. 1Atmos Energy
  2. 2Nisource
  3. 3Public Service Enterprise Group
  4. 4PPL
  5. 5Pinnacle West Capital
  6. 6Wec Energy Group
  7. 7Ameren
  8. 8Centerpoint Energy
  9. 9American Water Works Company
  10. 10Alliant Energy
  11. 112024 American Water Works Company, Inc.Not disclosed
  12. 12CMS EnergyNot disclosed
  13. 13Entergy CorporationNot disclosed
  14. 14Essential Utilities, Inc.Not disclosed
  15. 15EvergyNot disclosed
  16. 16Eversource EnergyNot disclosed
  17. 17OGE Energy Corp.Not disclosed

Pay of each named executive comes from the Summary Compensation Table of each proxy statement. Realized pay adds the value of options used and stock that vested. CEO pay of each peer comes from its own Pay versus Performance table.