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Australia's highest paid CEO makes 500 times the average salary
Chris Hulls is the co-founder of Life360 and executive chairman of its board of directors. (Supplied: Life360)
Australia's highest-paid executive collected almost $48 million in the 2025 financial year, which is about 500 times the full-time average wage.
The average ASX100 CEO earned about 55 times more than the average wage earner in FY2025.
Five out of the top 10 highest earners listed on the ASX are from US-based companies, according to Australian Council of Superannuation Investors research.
American entrepreneur and Life360's co-founder Chris Hulls is Australia's highest-paid executive, collecting almost $48 million in the 2025 financial year, which is almost 500 times the full-time average wage.
US-based ASX CEOs clear $30m as pay for locals stalls
Three US-based chief executives of Australian-listed companies are each earning more than $30 million, placing them at the top of the list of highest-paid CEOs and raising the risk that US-style pay inflation will land here, where pay for top executives has stalled for more than a decade.
Chris Hulls, the executive chairman and co-founder of the dual ASX- and Nasdaq-listed, Silicon Valley-based family-tracking app Life 360, was the highest-paid chief executive of an ASX-listed company in the 2024-25 financial year on $47.7 million, according to a report by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors.
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Half of the ASX’s highest-paid CEOs lead US-based companies
Half of the 10 highest-paid chief executives on the Australian stock exchange lead companies which are based in the United States.
New research released on Tuesday by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) shows that while pay levels for chief executives continued to plateau last financial year, thanks to heightened scrutiny from investors and boards, bosses of companies domiciled in the US were paid the biggest salaries for the first time in the study’s history.
Chris Hulls, chief executive of location sharing app Life360, was the highest-paid chief executive on the ASX, with a total pay packet of $47.7 million, a figure which accounts for base salary, plus bonuses and the value of share options.
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