The 67 highest paid executives at public sporting goods retailers saw their total compensation decline 1% for 2017 to an average for those with comparable earnings in both years of $1,957,151 against $1,992,703 the prior year. The 14 CEOs in the study saw their average compensation fall 17.4% to $3,082,345 from $3,922,533 while 14 CFOs were up 17.4% to an average of $1,484,780 from $1,441,747. The nine chief merchant and operations officers had a slight 3.5% decline to $1,325,974 from $1,416,818.

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