CEO Paywatch: Retiring Hugh Sawyer from Regis made $890K last fiscal year

Total compensation: $889,861 for the year ended June 30

Salary: $861,821

Other compensation: $28,040

Total 2020 shareholder return: -50.2%

CEO pay ratio: 42-1

Median employee pay: $21,232

Note: Regis announced on Sept. 8 that Sawyer would be retiring as chairman, president and CEO though he would remain an executive adviser to the company through September 2021.

It was a strategy that Sawyer had launched shortly after he was named to the top spot nearly 3 ½ years ago.

In his last full year as CEO, Sawyer realized $889,861 in total compensation, down from $3.6 million the year before and $3.1 million the year before that.

Sawyer and other senior executives and members of the board of directors took cuts to their compensation earlier this year when government mandates closed salons in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Salon employees were out of work, and other employees took furloughs and salary cuts.