Douglas Merritt
2019
In 2019, Douglas Merritt earned a total compensation of $13.5M as President, CEO and Director at Splunk, a 47% increase compared to previous year.
Compensation breakdown
| Non-Equity Incentive Plan | $1,625,000 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $650,000 |
| Stock Awards | $11,174,462 |
| Other | $56,333 |
| Total | $13,505,795 |
Merritt received $11.2M in stock awards, accounting for 83% of the total pay in 2019.
Merritt also received $1.6M in non-equity incentive plan, $650K in salary and $56.3K in other compensation.
Rankings
In 2019, Douglas Merritt's compensation ranked 424th out of 13,971 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Merritt earned more than 97.0% of executives.
| Classification | Ranking | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
All | 424 out of 13,971 | 97th |
Division Services | 94 out of 2,389 | 96th |
Major group Business Services | 67 out of 1,581 | 96th |
Industry group Computer Programming, Data Processing, And Other Computer Related Services | 48 out of 994 | 95th |
Industry Prepackaged Software | 31 out of 533 | 94th |
Pay ratio
| Douglas Merritt's Pay | $13,505,795 |
|---|---|
| Median Employee's Pay | $261,231 |
| Pay Ratio | 52to 1 |
In 2019, the annual total compensation of Douglas Merritt was $13,505,795.
The annual total compensation of the median employee at Splunk was $261,231.
The ratio of Douglas Merritt's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 52 to one.
Source: SEC filing on April 30, 2019.
Merritt's colleagues
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