Over the last 6 year period, top exectives at Southwest Airlines have included 1 woman and 19 men. Put another way, about 5.26 percent of these top executives have been women.

A corporation is ranked here by the percentage of it's executive team that is made up by historically underrepresented groups. These underrepresented groups currently consist of women only. See the Methodology section of this report for more information about how Spendwell develops this ranking and how additional underrepresented groups will be included in the future.

Over the last six year reporting period period, on average, Southwest Airlines paid its top-earning executive women about $3,639,060 annually. This works out to about 113.18% of what it paid its top-earning executive men who earned about $3,215,324 over the same period.

A corporation is ranked here by how much it pays historically underrepresented groups as compared to historically dominant groups. These underrepresented groups currently consist of women only. See the Methodology section of this report for more information about how Spendwell develops this ranking and how additional underrepresented groups will be included in the future.

Southwest Airlines paid its Executive Chairman & CEO around 423 times more than its lowest-paid earner (or assumed equivalent) in 2020. Out of the last six reported years, 2020 was the year in which the Executive Chairman & CEO of Southwest Airlines took home their largest compensation package.

Over the last six reported years, the 20 largest annual executive compensation packages at Southwest Airlines totaled around $97.6 million, with a median package of around $3.8 million. An executive can account for more than one of these packages.

A company is ranked here by how the largest annual compensation package of its highest-paid executive in the last six reported years compares to the annual compensation of its lowest-paid employee, contractor or assumed equivalent. Because Southwest Airlines has not made a public, verifiable statement guaranteeing all of its employees and contractors are assured a minimum wage greater than the US federal minimum wage, Spendwell has used a federal minimum wage annual salary equivalent, including the value of benefits, to represent the earnings of the lowest-paid employee or contractor at Southwest Airlines.

See the Methodology section of this report for more information about how Spendwell develops this ranking.

• YearAmount spent
• 2022
  $1,100,000
• 2021
  $1,110,000
• 2020
  $1,290,000
• 2019
  $1,230,000
• 2018
  $1,460,000

• YearAmount spent
• 2021
  $0
• 2020
  $0
• 2019
  $0
• 2018
  $0