AutoZone Inc's Top-Tier Executives Average Pay Raise Was a Robust 13.4% Per Year During the Past Ten Years (Aug 2009-Aug 2018)

From Company Proxy Statement filings with the SEC, the chart at the very bottom below are AutoZone Inc's Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of two consecutive full years of employment for the most recent ten years.

Autozone Inc's Top-Tier Executives Average Annual Pay Raise of  a robust 13.4% per year over the past 10 years is the 9th highest of the 20 largest Retail Companies I have researched and made similar posts on so far:

1. Amazon +659.0% per year for the past ten years
2. Dollar General +34.2% per year for the past ten years
3. McDonald's +30.7% per year for the past ten years
4. Walgreens Boots Alliance +22.2% per year for the past ten years
5. Ross Stores +20.8% per year for the past ten years
6. The TJX Companies +20.7% per year for the past ten years
7. Starbucks +16.4% per year for the past ten years
8. Chipotle Mexican Grill +14.3% per year for the past ten years
9. AutoZone +13.4% per year for the past ten years
10. Dollar Tree +13.2% per year for the past ten years
11. CVS Health +13.1% per year for the past ten years
12. Sherwin-Williams Co +12.0% per year for the past ten years
13. The Kroger Co +11.2% per year for the past ten years
14. Target Corp +10.1% per year for the past ten years
15. O'Reilly Automotive's 8.4% per year for the past ten years
16. Costco +7.1% per year for the past ten years
17. Home Depot +6.5% per year for the past ten years
18. Walmart +5.8% per year for the past ten years
19. YUM! Brands +4.9% per year for the past ten years
20. Lowe's Companies +4.2% per year for the past ten years

To fix Income Inequality driven mainly by Company and its Board of Director choices on Percentage Annual Pay Raises, the US Government should step in and pass wisely-designed Fair Pay Raise Income Inequality Narrowing Company tax incentives ..... the carrot ..... and Company wise tax disincentives ..... the stick.  

And the continuing annual net tax revenues raised by the US Government here should be set up in a separate fund to be used only for wise additional income inequality narrowing initiatives.  This fund should be run by an outside group made up entirely of minorities harmed the most by Income Inequality Expansion of the past decades  .....all women, all blacks, all Latinos, all other non-white people, all past and present union members, all LGBTQ, all non-employee contract workers and all middle and lower income people of all ages.

Also, the US Government should require all US Corporate Boards to include at least one worker representative and to exclude any Company Executive. 

I have researched and made posts on Top-Tier Executives Long-Term Average Annual Pay Raise per year for each of the 30 Dow Industrial Companies and for 22 of the largest Non-Dow Technology Companies.  

I am now turning my attention to large Non-Dow, Non-Technology Companies and I have started with the US Retailers.  

My objective is to get an even better handle on just why the US has such massive continuing Income Inequality Expansion ..... it appears to be predominantly about the relative long-term annual pay raise percentages, coupled with the stock price appreciation subsequent to the time the Top-Tier Executives were rewarded in their pay with stock equity compensation.

	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
	Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug
AutoZone	2018	2017		2017	2016		2016	2015		2015	2014		2014	2013
Top-Tier	Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total
Executive	Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp
	$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s
William Rhodes CEO	4,221	3,335		3,335	15,350		15,350	5,352		5,352	5,354		5,354	5,305
William Giles CFO	2,508	2,560		2,560	3,027		3,027	2,764		2,764	2,709		2,709	2,628
William Graves EVP Mexico, Brazil	2,101	2,151		2,151	2,558		2,558	2,020		2,020	2,008		2,008	1,847
Mark Finestone EVPMdseSupplyChain&Mktg	2,098	2,148		2,148	2,863		2,863	2,006		2,006	1,971		N/A	N/A
Thomas Newbern EVP Store Operations	2,051	2,104		2,104	2,866		2,866	1,965		N/A	N/A
Larry Roesel SVP Commercial													1,941	1,823
Totals	12,979	12,298		12,298	26,664		26,664	14,107		12,142	12,042		12,012	11,603
Annual % Change vs Prior Year	5.5%			-53.9%			89.0%			0.8%			3.5%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change		9.0%
	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
	Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug
AutoZone	2013	2012		2012	2011		2011	2010		2010	2009		2009	2008
Top-Tier	Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total
Executive	Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp
	$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s
William Rhodes CEO	5,305	4,741		4,741	11,360		11,360	3,810		3,810	3,053		3,053	2,887
William Giles CFO	2,628	2,348		2,348	2,211		2,211	1,814		1,814	1,531		1,531	1,721
William Graves EVP Mexico, Brazil	N/A	N/A
Larry Roesel SVP Commercial	1,823	1,965		1,965	1,767		1,767	1,318		N/A	N/A
Harry Goldsmith General Counsel	2,355	2,113		2,113	1,950		1,950	1,592		1,592	1,348		1,348	1,345
Ronald Griffin Chief Information Officer	N/A	N/A
James Shea EVPMdseingMktg&Supply Chain										1,729	1,505		1,505	1,500
Robert Olsen EVP Store Operations							2,056	837		837	1,683		1,633	1,458
Totals	12,111	11,167		11,167	17,288		19,344	9,371		9,782	9,120		9,070	8,911
Annual % Change vs Prior Year	8.5%			-35.4%			106.4%			7.3%			1.8%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change		17.7%
10 Year Average Per Year % Change		13.4%