The List: Ball Corp.’s Hayes tops list of highest-paid execs

John Hayes, president and CEO of Westminster-based Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL), topped BizWest’s latest list of highest-paid executives for 2020.

The list ranks executives of locally based public companies by total compensation, as reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Hayes’ 2020 compensation totaled $13.88 million, up from $11.86 million the prior year. His 2020 compensation included a base salary of $1.42 million, with $3 million in stock awards and $3 million in stock options. He also received non-equity incentive-plan compensation of almost $5.87 million, along with other compensation.The List is available on BizWest’s DataBank site, which includes digital versions of the Book of Lists, medical directories, Blueprints construction directory and Biz Local, a directory of locally owned companies.

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Christopher Wood

Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.