The 10 highest paid CEOs in SC earn more than $2M — one makes $9M. See who they are

South Carolina has 10 chief executive officers of publicly traded companies who made more than $2 million in salary and benefits in 2022. While their salaries are significant, some earned many times their base pay in stock awards and incentives. Howard Coker of Sonoco Products Co., based in Hartsville, earned the most in 2022 — $9,794,049, according to a database supplied by the AFL-CIO. The information is publicly available through company filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The union included in each profile how many times more the executive...