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Top 10 highest-paid women CEOs

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The 10 highest-paid women CEOs for 2016, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm (with change from last year):

  1. Ginni Rometty, IBM, $32.3 million, up 63%
  2. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo. $27.4 million, down 24%
  3. Indra Nooyi, Pepsico, $25.2 million, up 13%
  4. Mary Barra, GM, $22.4 million, down 22%
  5. Phebe Novakovic, General Dynamics, $21.2 million, up 4%
  6. Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin, $19.4 million, down 4%
  7. Irene Rosenfeld, Mondelez International, $15.8 million, down 13%
  8. Lynn Good, Duke Energy, $13.5 million, up 26%
  9. Heather Bresch, Mylan, $13.3 million, down 27%
  10. Susan Cameron, Reynolds American, $13.1 million, down 3%

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