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YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES

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| Executive | Company | 2010 total comp. | 2009 total comp. | 1-year percent change | 1-year percent stock change | ||||
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Lois Martin | Capella Education Co. | 3,840,483 | -11.6 | |||||
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Gail Boudreaux | UnitedHealth Group Inc. | 3,580,771 | 19.9 | |||||
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Kathryn Tesija | Target Corp. | 2,908,689 | 2,432,151 | 19.6 | 8.6 | |||
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Jody Feragen | Hormel Foods Corp. | 2,451,686 | 1,062,470 | 130.8 | 28.6 | |||
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Sally Smith | Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. | 1,965,583 | 1,989,836 | -1.2 | 8.9 | |||
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Pamela Patsley | MoneyGram International Inc. | 1,672,549 | -5.9 | |||||
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Carol Surface | Best Buy Co. Inc. | 1,289,313 | -10.3 | |||||
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L.A. Walker | Valspar Corp. | 1,202,287 | 29.4 | |||||
The annual Star Tribune compensation survey examined compensation data for the largest publicly-held companies in Minnesota. Proxy information for some companies was not available at press time; the survey analyzed information from more than 150 public companies. Total compensation includes all cash payments, deferred compensation and the monetary value of stock awarded, as specified by each company in its annual proxy statement or 10-K filing. Total compensation also includes any gains from the exercise of stock options. The chart on this page includes top executives within each company, ranked in order of total compensation.
ABBREVIATIONS:
Ch - Chairman
Chw - Chairwoman
CEO - Chief Executive Officer
P - President
COO - Chief Operating Officer
Sec. - Secretary
NM - Not meaningful
NR - Not ranked
- Means not available
Source: Company reports, Bloomberg News
Check out the boss's pay package in the Star Tribune's annual executive compensation survey. Median total pay of chief executive officers in 2010 was flat after dropping the two previous years. Here are the 100 largest CEO pay packages among the public companies we examined.
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