CEO Pay Watch: Polaris' Scott Wine made nearly $21 million in 2018

March 12, 2019 at 1:38AM
Polaris CEO Scott Wine (Provided photo)
Polaris CEO Scott Wine (Provided photo) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Scott Wine Polaris Industries Inc.

Chairman, CEO

Total compensation: $20,816,073 for the year ended Dec. 31, 2018

Salary: $1,006,923

Nonequity incentive pay: $1,290,000

Other compensation: $202,894

Exercised stock options: $17,848,359

Value realized on vesting shares: $467,897

New stock options: 131,770

Median employee pay: $53,892

CEO pay ratio: 173:1

Total 2019 shareholder return: -36.8 percent

Note: Wine's compensation jumped from the $2.8 million realized in 2017, mainly because of $17.8 million worth of previously issued stock options he exercised in 2018.

In 2018, the company added restricted stock units to its mix of long-term equity awards that include stock options and performance-based restricted stock units.

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