Issaquah, Washington-Based Costco Wholesale's Top-Tier Executives Average Annual Pay and Employee Benefits Increase Was a Very Modest 5.8% Per Year During the Past Five Years. Finally a Very Profitable US Corp Which Doesn't Pay Executives Exorbitant Amounts and Doesn't Give Executives Very Exorbitant Annual Pay Raises. Costco is the Gold Standard in Corporate Pay.

From annual compensation information contained in Proxy Statement filings with the US SEC, the table below shows Costco Wholesale's Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of the two consecutive full years of employment for the past five years.

	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
	Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug		Aug	Aug
Costco Wholesale	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
Craig Jelinek CEO	8,016	7,409		7,409	6,621		6,621	6,503		6,503	6,340		6,340	5,625
Richard Galanti CFO	4,442	4,298		4,287	3,989		3,989	3,906		3,906	3,746		3,746	3,353
Joseph Portera COO-Eastern and Canada Division	4,148	4,101		4,100	3,829		3,829	3,770		3,770	3,646		3,646	3,310
Paul Moulton Chief Information Officer	4,086	4,029		4,023	3,773		3,773	3,728		3,728	3,588		N/A	N/A
James Murphy COO-International Division	4,040	3,985		3,985	3,713		3,713	3,654		N/A	N/A
Jeffrey Brotman Former Chairman							N/A	N/A		6,482	6,311		6,311	5,630
Dennis Zook-COO Southwest Division & Mexico							3,846	3,777		3,777	3,625		3,625	3,294
Totals	24,732	23,822		23,804	21,925		25,771	25,338		28,166	27,256		23,668	21,212
Annual % Change vs Prior Year	3.8%			8.6%			1.7%			3.3%			11.6%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change		5.8%