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Total compensation was a median $1.1 million for the two highest-paid executives at a selection of 22 US-based staffing firms, and one Canadian-based firm, according to a new report released by Staffing Industry Analysts and prepared by Equilar, an executive compensation solutions firm based in Redwood City, Calif.
The report measured change in compensation between 2016 and 2015, and percent change was based on executives who were in place for two complete years or more.
In total, the report looked at total executive compensation for the two most highly compensated executives at each of 44 publicly traded staffing firms.
The five executives with highest pay in terms of total compensation included:
| Rank | Executive Name | Executive Title | Company Name |
Total Compensation (USD) |
| 1 | Jonas Prising | Chairman and CEO | ManpowerGroup Inc. | $10,990,140 |
| 2 | Harold M. Messmer, Jr. | Chairman and CEO | Robert Half International | $8,840,040 |
| 3 | Peter T. Dameris | CEO | On Assignment Inc. | $7,281,896 |
| 4 | M. Keith Waddell | Vice Chairman, President and CFO | Robert Half International | $7,025,477 |
| 5 | Darryl Green | Chief Operating Officer and President | ManpowerGroup Inc. | $5,345,793 |
Total compensation includes base salary, stock awards, option awards, nonequity incentive plan payouts, bonuses and other compensation.
The five executives with the highest compensation as percent of market cap included:
| Rank | Executive Name | Executive Title | Company Name | Total Comp. as a % of 2016 Market Cap |
| 1 | Vivek Gupta | President and CEO | Mastech Digital, Inc. | 4.38% |
| 2 | John N. Wallace | President and CEO | The Caldwell Partners International Inc. | 4.21% |
| 3 | Joseph F. Hughes | President and CEO | TSR | 3.77% |
| 4 | Nick Waterworth | Executive Chairman | Ambition Group | 3.19% |
| 5 | Christopher Hughes | Senior VP | TSR | 3.15% |
The full report is available to corporate members of Staffing Industry Analysts.