Best Buy Co Inc's Top-Tier Executives Average Pay Raise Was a Robust But Messy 15.0% Per Year During the Most Recent Ten Years With Full 12 Months Amounts in Each Fiscal Year

From Company Proxy Statement filings with the SEC, the chart at the very bottom below are Best Buy Co's Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of two consecutive full years of employment for the most recent ten years.  Best Buy reported 12 Months for FYE Jan 2014 but 11 Months for FYE Jan 2013, thus these comparable period compensation amounts were excluded from the below chart.

Best Buy's Top-Tier Executives Average Annual Pay Raise of  a robust 15.0% per year over the past 10 years is the 8th highest of the 21 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. Best Buy Co +15.0% per year for the past ten full years
9. Chipotle Mexican Grill +14.3% per year for the past ten years
10. AutoZone +13.4% per year for the past ten years
11. Dollar Tree +13.2% per year for the past ten years
12. CVS Health +13.1% per year for the past ten years
13. Sherwin-Williams Co +12.0% per year for the past ten years
14. The Kroger Co +11.2% per year for the past ten years
15. Target Corp +10.1% per year for the past ten years
16. O'Reilly Automotive's 8.4% per year for the past ten years
17. Costco +7.1% per year for the past ten years
18. Home Depot +6.5% per year for the past ten years
19. Walmart +5.8% per year for the past ten years
20. YUM! Brands +4.9% per year for the past ten years
21. 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
	Jan	Jan		Jan	Jan		Jan	Jan		Jan	Jan		Jan	Jan
Best Buy Co	2019	2018		2018	2017		2017	2016		2016	2015		2015	2014
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
Hubert Joly CEO	17,382	16,814		16,814	14,038		14,038	14,912		14,912	12,964		12,937	13,881
Corie Barry CFO	5,920	4,839		4,839	3,602		N/A	N/A
Michael Mohan COO	6,694	6,234		6,234	5,315		5,315	4,678		4,678	4,196		4,196	4,069
Keith Nelsen General Counsel	3,657	3,627		3,627	3,108		3,108	3,288		3,288	2,558		2,558	2,668
Kamy Scarlett Chief Human Resources Officer	N/A	N/A
Shari Ballard President Multi-Channel Retail	6,705	6,206		6,206	4,264		4,264	6,643		6,643	3,054		3,054	3,038
Sharon McCollam CFO							7,160	7,624		7,624	6,985		6,985	7,299
Totals	40,358	37,720		37,720	30,327		33,885	37,145		37,145	29,757		29,730	30,955
Annual % Change vs Prior Year	7.0%			24.4%			-8.8%			24.8%			-4.0%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change		8.7%
	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
	Feb	Feb		Feb	Feb		Feb	Feb		Feb	Feb		Feb	Feb
Best Buy Co	2012	2011		2011	2010		2010	2009		2009	2008		2008	2007
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
Hubert Joly CEO
Michael Mohan COO
Keith Nelsen General Counsel	1,320	686		686	893		N/A	N/A
Shari Ballard President Multi-Channel Retail	3,796	1,859		1,859	2,920		2,920	1,357		1,357	2,110		2,297	2,746
Sharon McCollam CFO
Brian Dunn Former CEO	8,215	5,030		5,030	10,232		10,232	2,380		2,380	3,964		3,872	4,544
James Muehlbauer Former CFO	4,012	2,142		2,142	2,958		2,958	2,307		2,307	1,377		1,287	1,050
Carol Surface Chief Human Resources Officer	2,230	3,275		N/A	N/A
Michael Vitelli Former President UA	3,759	1,836		1,836	2,420		2,420	919		919	1,062
Bradbury Anderson Former CEO										1,263	3,183		3,597	5,597
John Pershing Former EVP Human Capital										854	586
Robert Willett Former CEO										2,056	8,284		4,678	8,593
Totals	23,332	14,828		11,553	19,423		18,530	6,963		11,136	20,566		15,731	22,530
Annual % Change	57.4%			-40.5%			166.1%			-45.9%			-30.2%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change		21.4%
10 Year Average Per Year % Change		15.0%