{"id":477102,"date":"2026-10-26T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477102\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:32:10","slug":"dallas-fort-worths-100-highest-paid-executives-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477102\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas-Fort Worth&#8217;s 100 highest-paid executives, ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">Dallas-Fort Worth\u2019s highest paid executives work in fields just as varied as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/local-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">region&#8217;s economy<\/a> at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">The top 10 individuals work in financial services, restaurants, communication, furniture and healthcare. Together, their compensation packages are worth about $401 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">The best compensated executive with North Texas ties is James George Coulter, the founder and executive chairman of TPG Inc, an asset management company. TPG invests in a variety of industries, including private equity and real estate. Coulter received $72.7 million in compensation  \u2014 including salary, bonuses and stocks \u2014 in the most recent fiscal year. That\u2019s about 240 times more than the company\u2019s median employee pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">Of course, salary isn\u2019t the only way these execs are paid \u2014 in fact, regular salaries only made up about 6.5% of compensation among the top 100 executives at D-FW companies last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">The highest share of executive compensation came from restricted stock, or company shares that executives can own after meeting certain requirements. That accounted for about 68% of total compensation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">Other forms of compensation included cash bonuses, incentive plan awards and company options. <\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">Almost all of the best compensated executives on our list work for one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/projects\/2026\/top-companies-revenue-dallas-fort-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">top 150 companies in the D-FW area<\/a>. Only three don\u2019t and are at high tech or biotech companies: Arthur Kuan of CG Oncology, Hyunsu Jung of Hyperion DeFi and Paul Wagner of Forte Biosciences. <\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">Across the top 100, the average executive of a D-FW company is a 58-year-old man. Only 10 of the top 100 executives were women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">See how the 100 best-paid executives stack up:<\/p>\n<p class=\"sans-copy text-width mb-md\">The data for The Dallas Morning News&#8217; top 100 richest executives comes from S&amp;P Capital IQ, a financial database, as of Sept. 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sans-copy text-width mb-md\">Using the database\u2019s company screener, The News identified 556 employees working for Dallas-Fort Worth-area, publicly-traded companies who received any executive compensation in the 2025 fiscal year. Duplicate entries were removed and the remaining individuals were ranked by FY2025 compensation. The top 100 highest-compensated employees make up this list. Trends in the list were then analyzed by DMN reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas-Fort Worth\u2019s highest paid executives work in fields just as varied as the region&#8217;s economy at large. 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