W. Craig Jelinek

2021

In 2021, W. Craig Jelinek earned a total compensation of $8.8M as President and Chief Executive Officer at Costco, a 6% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$156,871
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$460,000
Salary$1,032,885
Stock Awards$7,049,636
Other$52,860
Total$8,752,252

Jelinek received $7M in stock awards, accounting for 81% of the total pay in 2021.

Jelinek also received $156.9K of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $460K in non-equity incentive plan, $1M in salary and $52.9K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2021, W. Craig Jelinek's compensation ranked 1,271st out of 12,415 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Jelinek earned more than 89.8% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
1,271
out of 12,415
90th
Division
Retail Trade
65
out of 680
90th
Major group
General Merchandise Stores
5
out of 27
82nd
Industry group
Variety Stores
3
out of 21
86th
Industry
Variety Stores
3
out of 21
86th

Pay ratio

W. Craig Jelinek's Pay$8,752,252
Median Employee's Pay$45,294
Pay Ratio

193

to 1

In 2021, the annual total compensation of W. Craig Jelinek was $8,752,252.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Costco was $45,294.

The ratio of W. Craig Jelinek's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 193 to one.

Source: SEC filing on December 10, 2021.

Jelinek's colleagues

We found five more compensation records of executives who worked with W. Craig Jelinek at Costco in 2021.

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Joseph Portera

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Chief Operating Officer

2021

Ron Vachris

Costco

Chief Operating Officer

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James Murphy

Costco

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2021

Russ Miller

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