Our data indicates that SVB Financial Group is worth US$12b, and total annual CEO compensation was reported as US$7.6m for the year to December 2018. While we always look at total compensation first, we note that the salary component is less, at US$954k. We further remind readers that the CEO may face performance requirements to receive the non-salary part of the total compensation. We took a group of companies with market capitalizations over US$8.0b, and calculated the median CEO total compensation to be US$11m. Once you start looking at very large companies, you need to take a broader range, because there simply aren't that many of them.