Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare CEOs were paid between 189 and 406 times more than the health system’s median employee between 2020 and 2024, according to proxy statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tenet identifies the median compensated employee using total gross wages earned during the calendar year, and pay is annualized for permanent employees who are not employed for the full year.
Ronald Rittenmeyer served as Tenet’s CEO in 2020. Saum Sutaria, MD, has served as the health system’s chief executive since 2021.
Here is how the CEO-to-median worker pay ratio has changed over the past five years:
2020
- Total CEO compensation: $16,675,529
- Median employee compensation: $54,501
- Ratio: 306 to 1
2021
- Total CEO compensation: $21,153,671
- Median employee compensation: $55,245
- Ratio: 383 to 1
2022
- Total CEO compensation: $11,047,128
- Median employee compensation: $58,435
- Ratio: 189 to 1
2023
- Total CEO compensation: $18,518,109
- Median employee compensation: $60,633
- Ratio: 305 to 1
2024
- Total CEO compensation: $24,661,553
- Median employee compensation: $60,698
- Ratio: 406 to 1
