Caterpillar: Pay

Caterpillar paid its 6 named executives $69.5M in total in FY2025 (Dec). CEO D. James Umpleby, III was paid $22.2M 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

D. James Umpleby, IIIChairman & CEO
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
FY2020 (Dec)
FY2019 (Dec)
FY2014 (Dec)
FY2013 (Dec)
9 years
Joseph E. CreedChief Operating Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
5 years
FY2025 (Dec)
1 year
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
FY2020 (Dec)
FY2019 (Dec)
7 years
Denise C. JohnsonGroup President
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
FY2020 (Dec)
FY2019 (Dec)
7 years
Bob De LangeGroup President
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
FY2020 (Dec)
FY2019 (Dec)
7 years

CEO pay against the pay peers

In FY2025 (Dec), the median CEO pay of the 14 peers with pay on file was $23.7M. The CEO of Caterpillar was paid $17.0M, 28% below the median.

  1. 1Cisco Systems
  2. 2General Electric
  3. 3General Motors
  4. 4Deere & Co
  5. 5Ford Motor
  6. 6RTX
  7. 7Archer-Daniels-Midland
  8. 8Boeing
  9. 9Emerson Electric
  10. 103M
  11. 11Johnson Controls International
  12. 12GE Vernova
  13. 13Caterpillar
  14. 14Halliburton
  15. 15Paccar
  16. 16CumminsNot disclosed
  17. 17FedexNot disclosed
  18. 18Honeywell InternationalNot disclosed
  19. 19IntelNot 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.