CEO Pay Watch Fastenal Co.

Willard Oberton, CEO

Total compensation: $794,761 for the year ended Dec. 31

Salary: $502,500

Non-equity incentive pay: $287,796

Other compensation: $4,465

Total 2013 return to shareholders: 3.6%

Note: Oberton's compensation of $795,000 for the year was well off of the $16.3 million he took home last year, mainly because in 2012 he exercised $14.2 million worth of stock options. He exercised no stock options in 2013.

Patrick Kennedy