Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc's Top-Tier Executives Average Pay Raise Was a Robust 14.3% Per Year During the Past Ten Years (2009-2018)..... a 5.2% Decline Per Year in the Most Recent 5 Years But a Blistering 33.9% Increase Per Year in the Previous 5 Years

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

It was a story of two very different Top-Tier Executive Group pay patterns.

In the most recent five years, Chipotle Mexican Grill's Top-Tier Executive Group experienced an Average Pay Decrease of 5.2% per year.

Whereas in the preceding five-year period, Chipotle Mexican Grill's Top-Tier Executive Group experienced an Average Pay Increase of 33.9% per year.

Chipotle Mexican Grill's Top-Tier Executives Average Annual Pay Raise of a robust 14.3% per year over the past 10 years is the 8th highest of the 18 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. Dollar Tree +13.2% per year for the past ten years
10. CVS Health +13.1% per year for the past ten years
11. The Kroger Co +11.2% per year for the past ten years
12. Target Corp +10.1% per year for the past ten years
13. O'Reilly Automotive's 8.4% per year for the past ten years
14. Costco +7.1% per year for the past ten years
15. Home Depot +6.5% per year for the past ten years
16. Walmart +5.8% per year for the past ten years
17. YUM! Brands +4.9% per year for the past ten years
18. 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
Chipotle Mexican Grill	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
Brian Niccol CEO	N/A	N/A
Steve Ells Executive Chairman	7,955	11,052		11,052	15,663		15,663	13,838		13,838	28,924		28,924	25,117
Jack Hartung CFO	4,984	5,205		5,205	6,854		6,854	6,033		6,033	10,246		10,246	9,882
Curt Garner Chief Technology Officer	8,127	3,910		N/A	N/A
Scott Boatwright Chief Restaurant Officer	5,711	1,716		N/A	N/A
Chris Brandt Chief Marketing	N/A	N/A
Mark Crumpacker				4,175	4,901		4,901	4,283		4,283	5,335		5,335	5,893
Monty Moran Former Co-CEO							15,479	13,561		13,561	28,153		28,153	24,397
Totals	26,777	21,883		20,432	27,418		42,897	37,715		37,715	72,658		72,658	65,289
Annual % Change vs Prior Year	22.4%			-25.5%			13.7%			-48.1%			11.3%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change		-5.2%
	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
Chipotle Mexican Grill	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
Brian Niccol CEO
Steve Ells Executive Chairman	25,117	19,741		19,741	19,392		19,392	14,096		14,096	6,415		6,415	7,818
Jack Hartung CFO	9,882	6,796		6,796	6,656		6,656	5,621		5,621	2,411		2,411	2,880
Mark Crumpacker	5,893	2,454		2,454	2,174		2,174	1,806		1,806	2,177		N/A	N/A
Monty Moran Former Co-CEO	24,397	19,146		19,146	18,760		18,760	13,450		13,450	5,554		5,554	5,386
Bob Blessing FormerChiefDevelopmentOfficer	N/A	N/A		2,460	2,470		2,470	2,049		2,049	1,203		1,203	1,302
Rex Jones Former Chief Development Officer													1,003	1,174
Totals	65,289	48,137		50,597	49,452		49,452	37,022		37,022	17,760		16,586	18,560
Annual % Change	35.6%			2.3%			33.6%			108.5%			-10.6%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change		33.9%
10 Year Average Per Year % Change		14.3%