The Highest-Paid Female C.E.O.s

There are very few women on the list of top-paid executives — just 13 out of 200 — and their average pay, $20 million, is 9.4 percent less than $22.6 million overall average.

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   Rank: 14th
   Marissa A. Mayer
   Yahoo
   $42.1 million
   
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   Rank: 24th
   ​Martine Rothblatt
   United Therapeutics
   $31.6 million

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   Rank: 54th
   ​Carol Meyrowitz
   TJX Companies
   $23.3 million

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   Rank: 72nd
   Margaret C. Whitman
   Hewlett-Packard
   $19.6 million

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   Rank: 81st
   Indra K. Nooyi
   PepsiCo
   $19.1 million
   
   

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   Rank: 83rd
   Phebe N. Novakovic
   General Dynamics
   $19.0 million
   
   

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   Rank: 93rd
   Virginia M. Rometty
   IBM
   $17.9 million
   
   

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   Rank: 97th
   Marillyn A. Hewson
   Lockheed Martin
   $17.9 million
   
   

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   Rank: 120th
   Patricia A. Woertz
   Archer Daniels Midland
   $16.3 million
   
   

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    Rank: 124th
    Irene B. Rosenfeld
    Mondelez International
    $15.9 million
    
    

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    Rank: 126th
    Mary T. Barra
    General Motors
    $15.8 million
    
    

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    Rank: 149th
    Laura J. Alber
    Williams-Sonoma
    $14.7 million
    
    

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    Rank: 181st

    Ellen J. Kullman

    DuPont

    $13.1 million
    
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