AECOM CEO Troy Rudd took home a base salary of $1.4 million in 2025, a 5.6 percent increase over the previous year, according to the company’s recent proxy statement.
But in the world of executive compensation, pay is dwarfed by stock.
When stock and other incentive compensation is added to the salary, Rudd’s total pay package for the year came to $15.9 million.
The compensation package is consistent with Dallas-based AECOM’s ranking at No. 1 on ENR’s Top 500 Design Companies list and reflects the corporation’s directors’ confidence in improving performance across a number of measures, including free cash flow for the year of $685 million, a healthy design portfolio and an earnings ratio.
The pay package is also typical of other CEOs of publicly traded design and construction companies, where directors take a pay-for-performance approach and where cash compensation in the form of salaries is less compared to stock awards or grants. They generally represent 60% to 80% or more of total compensation.
AECOM’s other named executives, CFO Gaurav Kapoor, President Laura Poloni and Chief Legal Officer David Gan, received base salary increases in the 3% range.
Rudd’s total compensation rose from $11.5 million in 2023 to $14.4 million in 2024, according to AECOM (NYSE-ACM).
CEO compensation for nine of the largest publicly traded design and procurement firms from 2021 to 2024 ranged from $2.6 million to $26 million. Among the companies were AECOM, Fluor, Jacobs, Quanta, EMCOR, MasTec, Granite, KBR and Tutor Perini.
As required by federal law, AECOM reports that the company’s average annual salary paid to employees is $74,214.
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