John L. Higgins

2016

In 2016, John L. Higgins earned a total compensation of $5.4M as Chief Executive Officer at Ligand Pharmaceuticals, a 18% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Non-Equity Incentive Plan$387,421
Option Awards$2,393,068
Salary$573,958
Stock Awards$1,992,215
Other$5,978
Total$5,352,640

Higgins received $2.4M in option awards, accounting for 45% of the total pay in 2016.

Higgins also received $387.4K in non-equity incentive plan, $574K in salary, $2M in stock awards and $6K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2016, John L. Higgins' compensation ranked 1,449th out of 14,075 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Higgins earned more than 89.7% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
1,449
out of 14,075
90th
Division
Manufacturing
490
out of 5,486
91st
Major group
Chemicals And Allied Products
136
out of 1,900
93rd
Industry group
Drugs
92
out of 1,543
94th
Industry
Pharmaceutical Preparations
73
out of 1,173
94th
Source: SEC filing on April 14, 2017.

Higgins' colleagues

We found three more compensation records of executives who worked with John L. Higgins at Ligand Pharmaceuticals in 2016.

2016

Matthew Foehr

Ligand Pharmaceuticals

Chief Operating Officer

2016

Matthew Korenberg

Ligand Pharmaceuticals

Chief Financial Officer

2016

Charles Berkman

Ligand Pharmaceuticals

General Counsel

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