Median employee pay: $56,366
Total 2020 shareholder return: -3.8%
Note: Wine announced in November that he would be leaving Polaris after nearly 12 years as CEO to lead CNH Industrial, a multinational maker of industrial, agricultural and construction equipment headquartered in London.
His realized compensation for his last year at Polaris was $6.1 million, a 48% increase over his realized pay in 2019. Most of that came from previously issued long-term equity awards that either vested or were exercised in 2020.
Wine voluntarily gave up his base salary from April 12, 2020, through the rest of the year in response to financial concerns related to COVID. He would have been eligible for a salary of $1.05 million. Instead, he was paid about $318,000 in salary.