David Bruton Smith

2019

In 2019, David Bruton Smith earned a total compensation of $4.3M as Chief Executive Officer at Sonic Automotive, a 60% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Non-Equity Incentive Plan$1,948,867
Salary$1,113,638
Stock Awards$1,176,123
Other$40,043
Total$4,278,671

Smith received $1.9M in non-equity incentive plan, accounting for 46% of the total pay in 2019.

Smith also received $1.1M in salary, $1.2M in stock awards and $40K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2019, David Bruton Smith's compensation ranked 2,741st out of 13,971 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Smith earned more than 80.4% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
2,741
out of 13,971
80th
Division
Retail Trade
165
out of 828
80th
Major group
Automotive Dealers And Gasoline Service Stations
14
out of 107
87th

Pay ratio

David Bruton Smith's Pay$4,278,671
Median Employee's Pay$57,100
Pay Ratio

75

to 1

In 2019, the annual total compensation of David Bruton Smith was $4,278,671.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Sonic Automotive was $57,100.

The ratio of David Bruton Smith's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 75 to one.

Source: SEC filing on March 18, 2020.

Smith's colleagues

We found three more compensation records of executives who worked with David Bruton Smith at Sonic Automotive in 2019.

2019

Jeff Dyke

Sonic Automotive

President

2019

Heath Byrd

Sonic Automotive

Chief Financial Officer

2019

O Smith

Sonic Automotive

Chairman

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