American Express: Pay

American Express paid its 5 named executives $100.6M in total in FY2025 (Dec). CEO S.J. Squeri was paid $46.2M 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

S.J. SqueriChairman and CEO
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
FY2020 (Dec)
FY2019 (Dec)
FY2018 (Dec)
FY2017 (Dec)
FY2016 (Dec)
FY2015 (Dec)
FY2014 (Dec)
12 years
D.E. BuckminsterVice Chairman
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
FY2020 (Dec)
FY2019 (Dec)
FY2018 (Dec)
FY2017 (Dec)
FY2016 (Dec)
FY2015 (Dec)
FY2014 (Dec)
12 years
C.Y. Le CaillecChief Financial Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
3 years
H.M. GrosfieldPresident, U.S. Consumer Services
FY2025 (Dec)
1 year
R.D. JoabarGroup President, Global Commercial Services
FY2025 (Dec)
1 year

CEO pay against the pay peers

In FY2024 (Dec), the median CEO pay of the 11 peers with pay on file was $28.8M. The CEO of American Express was paid $37.2M, 29% above the median.

  1. 1American Express
  2. 2Goldman Sachs Group
  3. 3Citigroup
  4. 4Capital One Financial
  5. 5Mastercard
  6. 6NIKE
  7. 7Pepsico
  8. 8Coca Cola
  9. 9Visa
  10. 10Morgan Stanley
  11. 11Colgate Palmolive
  12. 12PayPal Holdings
  13. 13BNY MellonNot disclosed
  14. 14Bank of AmericaNot disclosed
  15. 15BlackRockNot disclosed
  16. 16CiscoNot disclosed
  17. 17DiscoverNot disclosed
  18. 18JPMorgan ChaseNot disclosed
  19. 19StarbucksNot disclosed
  20. 20U.S. BancorpNot disclosed
  21. 21Wells FargoNot 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.