Only two Dutch-nationals, one woman in top 10 highest-paid CEOs in Netherlands

Booking’s American CEO Glen Fogel topped the list for the first time.

Last year, Fogel earned a basic salary of 678,000 euros, a bonus of just over 4.5 million euros, over 37 million euros in share profits, and another 37 million euros in “other income.” That brings the total remuneration of the American CEO of the originally Dutch holiday rental platform to over 42 million euros last year.

The top five is rounded off by the first Dutchman on the list - Richard Blickman of chip company Besi. He earned 19.0 million euros last year. The other Dutchman on the list is Peter Wennink, the now-former CEO of ASML. He earned 6.5 million euros last year. Nancy McKinstry is the only woman on the list. The American CEO of Wolters Kluwer earned 15.6 million euros last year, putting her in seventh place.

In total, the average remuneration of a CEO at the over 100 companies studied was 3.72 million euros, 13.6 percent more than a year earlier.

The wage gap - the difference between what a company paid to its CEO and an average employee - was 41.8. That means, on average, the CEO earned almost 42 times more than their average employee.

Here are the top ten highest-paid CEOs in the Netherlands, their total remuneration last year, and the wage gap with the average employee in their company.

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