Corie Barry
CEO, Best Buy Co. Inc.
Total compensation: $7,513,762 for the year ended Jan. 31, 2020
Salary: $1,013,462
Non-equity incentive pay: $1,913,334
Other compensation: $37,867
Exercised stock options: $43,074
Value realized on vesting shares: $4,506,025
New stock options: 94,172
CEO Pay ratio: 438 to 1
Median employee pay: $27,005
Total fiscal 2020 shareholder return: 47%
Note: Barry's realized compensation increased 17.8% from the previous year, when she was chief financial officer. The increase included salary adjustments since taking over CEO duties in June, and restricted stock that vested during the year.
Barry's compensation used to calculate the CEO pay ratio was $11.8 million.
Executive Chairman Hubert Joly, who plans to retire in June, realized $64.9 million during the year, mainly from previously issued long-term equity including stock options he exercised and restricted stock that vested during the year. It was Joly's largest payout since he was named CEO in 2012.
Due to a 30% drop in sales because of the coronavirus pandemic, the company has reduced store operations to curbside delivery of e-commerce orders and furloughed 51,100 store employees.
The same day Best Buy released its annual proxy statement, the company's board of directors also announced that it was cutting Barry's base salary rate from $1,160,000 to $580,000 starting April 12 through Sept. 1 and that other senior leaders are taking 20% salary cuts during that time.
Joly also agreed to reduce his base salary rate of $650,000 by half during the remainder of his term. The board of directors are also reducing their cash retainer fees by half. Best Buy directors get $95,000 per year plus $15,000 to $25,000 for chairing certain board committees.
