America's 20 highest paid CEOs and how much they make

This undated photo provided by Ventas shows company CEO Debra Cafaro. At $25.3 million, Cafaro was the second highest-paid female CEO for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (Charlie Westerman/Ventas via AP)

In this December 11, 2017, file photo, General Motors Chairman and CEO, Mary Barra, is interviewed by Cox Automotive's Michelle Krebs during an Automotive Press Association event in Detroit. At $21.9 million, Barra was third highest-paid female CEO for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

In this February 23, 2017, file photo, General Dynamics ,CEO, Phebe Novakovic, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with manufacturing executives at the White House in Washington. At $21.2 million, Novakovic was the fourth highest-paid female CEO for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

In this March 6, 2014, file photo, Duke Energy President and CEO, Lynn Good, discusses the stability of the power grid with environmental regulations during a media availability at the IHS CERAWeek energy conference in Houston. At $21.1 million, Good was the fifth highest-paid female CEO for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

This photo combination shows the highest-paid CEOs at big US companies for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. Top row, from left: Hock E. Tan, Broadcom, $103.2 million; Leslie Moonves, CBS, $68.4 million; W. Nicholas Howley, TransDigm, $61 million; Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner, $49 million and Stephen Kaufer, TripAdvisor, $43.2 million. Bottom row, from left: David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $42.2 million; Robert Iger, Walt Disney, $36.3 million; Stephen Wynn, Wynn Resorts, $34.5 million; Brenton Saunders, Allergan, $32.8 million and Brian Roberts, Comcast, $32.5 million. (AP Photo)

In this November 2, 2017, file photo, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan speaks as President Donald Trump listens during an event to announce the company is moving its global headquarters to the United States, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. The highest-paid CEO in Equilar’s analysis was Hock Tan of Broadcom, who made $103.2 million. The vast majority of Tan’s compensation came in the form of a stock grant, valued at $98.3 million. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

In this May 13, 2015 file photo, CBS president Leslie Moonves attends the CBS Network 2015 Programming Upfront at The Tent at Lincoln Center in New York. Moonves was the second-highest paid CEO at big US companies for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. He made $68.4 million, including a $20 million bonus. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

This undated photo provided by TransDigm Group shows company CEO W. Nicholas Howley of TransDigm, which designs and produces aircraft components. Howley was the third-highest paid CEO at big US companies for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. He earned $61 million, including $51.2 million of payments from the company on stock options he holds, as if they had earned dividends. He made just $7,000 in salary last year. (TransDigm Group via AP)

In this June 18, 2014, file photo, Jeffrey Bewkes, Chairman and CEO of Time Warner, attends the Cannes Lions 2014, 61st International Advertising Festival in Cannes, southern France. Bewkes was the fourth-highest paid CEO at $49 million, according to a survey by executive data firm Equilar for The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

This undated image provided by TripAdvisor shows company CEO Steve Kaufer, the fifth-highest paid CEO at big US companies for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. (TripAdvisor via AP)