From the Centre Daily Times, on The Conference Board's look at 2007 executive compensation:

According to The Conference Board study, the utilities industry and the food and tobacco industry top the list of median CEO compensation. The highest median CEO total compensation was $3.9 million for the utilities industry and $3.8 million for the food and tobacco industry. Because of the broad-brush classification that includes many smaller "commercial banks" along with the larger banks and "nonbanking financial services" companies, the ranking of financial services is at the bottom of the median CEO compensation list with $734,000. While on average larger companies pay higher salaries, the fraction of total compensation that is delivered by base salary is lower as companies get larger. The smallest 10 percent of companies deliver 57 percent of their total compensation in salary, whereas the largest 10 percent of companies deliver only 12.5 percent as salary.