What Minnesota's highest-paid top executives made in 2000Here are the largest total compensation packages for top executives at 100 public companies examined by the Star Tribune. All data are for the most recently completed fiscal year, which in most cases was the 2000 calendar year. | |||||||
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| 1 | William W. McGuire, UnitedHealth Group, $54,130,000 |
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| 2 | Ronald N. Zebeck, Metris Companies Inc., $53,549,000 |
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| 3 | William J. Cadogan, ADC Telecommunications Inc., $45,902,000 |
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| 4 | Richard M. Schulze, Best Buy Co. Inc., $30,053,000 |
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| 5 | James T. Anderson, Zomax Inc., $11,517,000 |
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| 6 | William W. George, Medtronic Inc., $8,058,000 |
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| 7 | Allan L. Schuman, Ecolab Inc., $7,516,000 |
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| 8 | Livio D. DeSimone, 3M Co., $6,899,000 |
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| 9 | Thomas G. Hudson, Computer Network Technology Corp., $6,721,000 |
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| 10 | Robert J. Ulrich, Target Corp., $6,610,000 |
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| 11 | Douglas W. Leatherdale, St. Paul Companies Inc., $5,864,000 |
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| 12 | John Dasburg, Northwest Airlines Corp., $4,405,000 |
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| 13 | Robert C. Buhrmaster, Jostens Inc., $4,395,000 |
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| 14 | Stephen W. Sanger, General Mills Inc., $3,615,000 |
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| 15 | Jeffrey H. Curler, Bemis Co. Inc., $3,593,000 |
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| 16 | Michael W. Wright, Supervalu Inc., $3,433,000 |
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| 17 | Jerry A. Grundhofer, U.S. Bancorp, $3,281,000 |
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| 18 | Ronald L. Turner, Ceridian Corp., $2,989,000 |
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| 19 | William A. Cooper, TCF Financial Corp., $2,972,000 |
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| 20 | Kendrick B. Melrose, Toro Co., $2,927,000 |
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| 21 | Winslow H. Buxton, Pentair Inc., $2,846,000 |
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| 22 | John M. Siebert, Cima Labs Inc., $2,806,000 |
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| 23 | Joel W. Johnson, Hormel Foods Corp., $2,751,000 |
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| 24 | Thomas Tiller, Polaris Industries Inc., $2,251,000 |
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| 25 | David H. Peterson, NRG Energy Inc., $2,135,000 |
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| 26 | Wayne Brunetti, Xcel Energy Inc., $2,091,000 |
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| 27 | Lawrence J. Mosner, Deluxe Corp., $1,860,000 |
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| 28 | William G. Van Dyke, Donaldson Co. Inc., $1,740,000 |
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| 29 | Edwin L. Russell, Allete, $1,620,000 |
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| 30 | Paul David Miller, Alliant Techsystems, $1,460,000 |
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| 31 | Gene McCaffery, ValueVision International Inc., $1,220,000 |
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| 32 | Terry L. Shepherd, St. Jude Medical Inc., $1,148,000 |
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| 33 | William J. Prange, Christopher & Banks Corp., $1,088,000 |
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| 34 | Joseph P. Micatrotto, Buca Inc., $1,083,000 |
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| 35 | Gary E. Costley, International Multifoods Corp., $1,021,000 |
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| 36 | Ron Marshall, Nash Finch Co., $1,001,000 |
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| 37 | Paul B. Burke, BMC Industries Inc., $993,000 |
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| 38 | Janet M. Dolan, Tennant Co., $973,000 |
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| 39 | Charles N. Blitzer, MGI Pharma Inc., $910,000 |
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| 40 | George Aristides, Graco Inc., $881,000 |
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| 41 | Karl F. Storrie, Dura Automotive Systems Inc., $858,000 |
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| 42 | Mark A. Cohn, Damark International Inc., $855,000 |
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| 43 | Paul D. Finkelstein, Regis Corp., $808,000 |
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| 44 | Albert Stroucken, H.B. Fuller Co., $807,000 |
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| 45 | Steven Quist, CyberOptics Corp., $779,000 |
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| 46 | Susan E. Engel, Department 56 Inc., $778,000 |
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| 47 | Joel N. Waller, Wilsons The Leather Experts Inc., $771,000 |
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| 48 | Richard M. Rompala, Valspar Corp., $731,000 |
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| 49 | Ron Peltier, HomeServices.com Inc., $691,000 |
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| 50 | William R. McLaughlin, Select Comfort Corp., $660,000 |
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| 51 | Bernard Aldrich, Rimage Corp., $653,000 |
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| 52 | Stan Geyer, Entegris Inc., $642,000 |
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| 53 | William T. Monahan, Imation Corp., $632,000 |
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| 54 | Allen Berning, Pemstar Inc., $631,000 |
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| 55 | William H. Spell, PW Eagle Inc., $600,000 |
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| 56 | Peter L. Frechette, Patterson Dental Co., $594,000 |
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| 57 | Dugald K. Campbell, Tower Automotive Inc., $575,000 |
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| 58 | Wayne M. Fortun, Hutchinson Technology Inc., $569,000 |
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| 59 | D.R. "Sid" Verdoorn, C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc., $565,000 |
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| 60 | Frederick W. Lang, Analysts International Corp., $552,000 |
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| 61 | Stan K. Dardis, Bremer Financial Corporation, $545,000 |
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| 62 | David T. Giddings, Diametrics Medical Inc., $536,000 |
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| 63 | Christopher A. Twomey, Arctic Cat Inc., $531,000 |
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| 64 | John C. MacFarlane, Otter Tail Power Co., $529,000 |
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| 65 | Daniel A. Potter, Video Update Inc., $527,000 |
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| 66 | Eldon C. Miller, Stockwalk Group Inc., $525,000 |
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| 67 | Philip Kives, K-tel International Inc., $504,000 |
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| 68 | Joseph Dunsmore, Digi International Inc., $503,000 |
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| 69 | Thomas E. Oland, Techne Corp., $503,000 |
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| 70 | Daniel A. Baker, Printware Inc., $502,000 |
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| 71 | Don Mitchell, FSI International Inc., $501,000 |
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| 72 | William R. Roach, Plato Learning Inc., $467,000 |
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| 73 | Kenneth Holec, Showcase Corp., $459,000 |
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| 74 | Russell Huffer, Apogee Enterprises Inc., $448,000 |
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| 75 | Thomas Moberly, G & K Services Inc., $440,000 |
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| 76 | Lyle Berman, Lakes Gaming Inc., $431,000 |
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| 77 | Martin O'Dowd, Famous Dave's of America Inc., $430,000 |
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| 78 | Paul Baszucki, Norstan Inc., $427,000 |
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| 79 | John Buchanan, Retek Inc., $426,000 |
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| 80 | Richard P. Ekstrand, Rural Cellular Corp., $422,000 |
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| 81 | David L. Andreas, National City Bancorporation, $392,000 |
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| 82 | Daniel E. Cohen, CNS Inc., $384,000 |
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| 83 | Johan P. Finley, PDS Financial Corp., $384,000 |
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| 84 | David H. Rotter, Rottlund Co. Inc., $380,000 |
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| 85 | Robert A. Hoerr, GalaGen Inc., $370,000 |
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| 86 | James W. Bracke, Lifecore Biomedical Inc., $361,000 |
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| 87 | Robert D. Alton Jr., Hickory Tech Corp., $357,000 |
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| 88 | John R. Hawkins, Hawkins Inc., $350,000 |
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| 89 | Christopher Dahl, iNTELEFILM Corp., $350,000 |
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| 90 | Marion Melvin Stuckey, Fourth Shift Corp., $340,000 |
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| 91 | Joel A. Ronning, Digital River Inc., $339,000 |
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| 92 | Robert G. Dutcher, Possis Medical Inc., $337,000 |
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| 93 | Sidney Emery Jr., MTS Systems Corp., $334,000 |
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| 94 | Eric H. Paulson, Navarre Corp., $326,000 |
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| 95 | David B. Kaysen, Rehabilicare Inc., $324,000 |
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| 96 | Jeff L. O'Dell, August Technology Corp., $323,000 |
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| 97 | Peter C. Lytle, United Shipping and Technology Inc., $316,000 |
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| 98 | James W. Bullock, Endocardial Solutions Inc., $314,000 |
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| 99 | Yale Dolginow, Paper Warehouse Inc., $312,000 |
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| 100 | Robert J. Sutter, IPI Inc., $310,000 |
| Note: Some executives were not included if their pay data were not available at press time. Total compensation includes base salary, bonus pay, gains from the exercise of stock options, restricted stock awards, long-term performance play payouts and other compensation, such as automobile allowances. | ||
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