James M. Foote

2020

In 2020, James M. Foote earned a total compensation of $15.3M as President & Chief Executive Officer at CSX, a 1% decrease compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Bonus$1,300,000
Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$338,576
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$200,000
Option Awards$6,006,842
Salary$1,250,000
Stock Awards$5,989,727
Other$221,570
Total$15,306,715

Foote received $6M in option awards, accounting for 39% of the total pay in 2020.

Foote also received $1.3M in bonus, $338.6K of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $200K in non-equity incentive plan, $1.3M in salary, $6M in stock awards and $221.6K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2020, James M. Foote's compensation ranked 388th out of 13,090 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Foote earned more than 97.0% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
388
out of 13,090
97th
Division
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
34
out of 772
96th
Major group
Railroad Transportation
2
out of 16
88th
Industry group
Railroads
2
out of 16
88th
Industry
Railroads, Line-Haul Operating
2
out of 16
88th

Pay ratio

James M. Foote's Pay$15,306,715
Median Employee's Pay$107,000
Pay Ratio

143

to 1

In 2020, the annual total compensation of James M. Foote was $15,306,715.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at CSX was $107,000.

The ratio of James M. Foote's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 143 to one.

Source: SEC filing on March 25, 2021.

Foote's colleagues

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Executive Vice President – Operations, CSXT

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