For top 300 CEOs, pay increased $13.7M in 2020, up from $12.8M in 2019. A series of new reports unveil that America’s top CEOs had a big year in 2020 during the pandemic. One Rhode Island CEO made over $27 million in 2020. “Median pay for the chief executives of more than 300 of the biggest U.S. public companies reached $13.7 million last year, up from $12.8 million for the same companies a year earlier and on track for a record, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis,” reports the WSJ. More than 110,000 American restaurants have closed according to the National Restaurant Association in data it released in January.