Ben Fowke

2019

In 2019, Ben Fowke earned a total compensation of $16.9M as Chairman and CEO at Xcel Energy, a 39% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$4,898,003
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$2,836,256
Salary$1,350,000
Stock Awards$7,750,015
Other$64,524
Total$16,898,798

Fowke received $7.8M in stock awards, accounting for 46% of the total pay in 2019.

Fowke also received $4.9M of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $2.8M in non-equity incentive plan, $1.4M in salary and $64.5K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2019, Ben Fowke's compensation ranked 261st out of 13,971 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Fowke earned more than 98.1% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
261
out of 13,971
98th
Division
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
31
out of 895
97th
Major group
Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
6
out of 352
98th
Industry group
Combination Electric And Gas, And Other Utility
2
out of 93
98th
Industry
Electric and Other Services Combined
2
out of 83
98th

Pay ratio

Ben Fowke's Pay$16,898,798
Median Employee's Pay$113,022
Pay Ratio

150

to 1

In 2019, the annual total compensation of Ben Fowke was $16,898,798.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Xcel Energy was $113,022.

The ratio of Ben Fowke's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 150 to one.

Source: SEC filing on April 8, 2020.

Fowke's colleagues

We found five more compensation records of executives who worked with Ben Fowke at Xcel Energy in 2019.

2019

Kent Larson

Xcel Energy

Executive Vice President and Group President, Operations

2019

Robert Frenzel

Xcel Energy

Chief Operating Officer

2019

Bob Frenzel

Xcel Energy

Chief Executive Officer

2019

Brett Carter

Xcel Energy

Executive Vice President, Chief Customer and Innovation Officer

2019

Scott Wilensky

Xcel Energy

General Counsel

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