Online employer review site Glassdoor released its Top CEOs in Canada 2021 list this week, which ranks General Motors CEO and chair Mary Barra as one of the top ten CEOs in the country.
Barra, the only woman CEO of a major automaker, was ranked ninth on the Top CEOs in Canada 2021 list with a Canadian employee approval rating of 97 percent. While Mary Barra is an American citizen who resides in Michigan, this Glassdoor ranking is for companies that operate in Canada, which is why Barra appears on the list. The 59-year old narrowly beat out Apple CEO Tim Cook for the ninth spot on the list.
The top CEO in Canada for 2021 is Barry McInerney, CEO of Mackenzie Investments, who had an approval rating of 99 percent. Other CEOs in the top ten include Rania Llewellyn (Laurentian Bank), Ernie Herrman (Marshalls), Ronald Cohn (Sick Kids Hospital) and Jeffrey Jones III (H&R Block).
Glassdoor’s Top CEOs in Canada 2021 list was put together using employee reviews of their company’s CEO. This differentiates the list from other CEO rankings, which typically use a variety of different metrics to determine the top-performing CEOs in the country. Notably, Barra does not appear on the U.S. version of Glassdoor’s Top CEOs ranking, which placed Boston Consulting Group CEO Rich Lesser in the top spot.
Barra, who was named as the successor to former GM CEO Dan Akerson in late 2013, earned approximately $40.3 million in 2020, which includes her base salary, cash bonus payouts, gains from stock awards, benefits and perquisites. This made Barra the second highest-earning CEO of an American company last year behind Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The median GM employee salary in 2020 was $117,566. Based on that figure, Barra’s total compensation was 342 times higher than that of the average white-collar GM employee.
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Slay
racked number 9 by the deaf and blind, what comic books are you guys reading!!
Does she own any clothes that aren’t black?
The employees that don’t like her are the diehard ICE fans who abhor gm’s goal of 100% BEVs by 2035.
Go “green” as long as it benefits groups that are vested in the tech. Oof. Hydrogen and nuclear are far more “green” than lithium batteries could ever be.
h4cksaw – I agree with you on this point.
Must be a mix up.
The list is more likely the worst CEOs.
Just because she ‘takes’ 40 million in compensation does not mean she is good.
Or maybe there are only 9 CEOs in Canada.
Really? You seen GM’s stock price lately? Plus the list is ranked by GM employees rating her on Glassdoor.
Haaaaaaaa
IPO at $35 over ten years ago and now finally over $48. She should be fired for that alone.
As far as gM reviews by employees, you have obviously never worked at gM.
I have watched most people get promoted by sucking up and writing great ‘fake’ reviews of their bosses. Ability has little to do with promotions.
Like it or not, this explains the glass door results
GM Retired – You sound bitter.
Just the facts green.
Just the facts.
Just your opinions actually. Perhaps that partly explains why you were apparently passed over for promotions you felt you deserved. Because of a negative attitude and because you apparently can’t tell the difference between your opinion and facts.
Green.
No, they are actually facts. Look up the stock price. Let me know if you need any help with that.
I was hourly. No promotions for hourly. Just a ringside seat to watch puppets (probably like you) to dance around controlled by the leadersheep.
Pretty funny actually. But sad for everyone who depends on GM to make a living.
I figured as much. GED, right?
Wrong again. I’m getting tired of correcting you.
I have a BEME. That’s a bachelor of mechanical engineering if you didn’t know. Also a journeyman electrician while at GM.
That means I can do the math as well as get my hands dirty.
I can explain that to you also if you don’t understand.
But I’m losing interest in you.
Bye
BSME not BEME, and if you actually had one you’d know that. I’m getting tired of correcting you. Bye 😉
Go green
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering is
BEME.
It’s funny and kind of sad when people don’t know how dumb they are.
Didn’t there stock price take a massive dump less then a week ago?
It wasn’t a massive dump and was strictly related to global supply shortages, which if you were paying attention you’d know about. Shows the limited mentality of the people I’m trying to reason with here lol
Your just STUPID……..that’s all…….
You can’t teach STUPID………….
Enough Said….
Errr, your grammar is seriously lacking there Mr. Dimwit. (Hint: it’s you’re, not your)
How can you talk about his grammar when errr is not even a word?
It was a 9% fall that is pretty big. And now they have a no sale order on both there ev vehicles for catching fire so…
Just some more smoke and mirrors….
Just ask all the employees or should I say ex employees that were let go from all the factory’s she closed..
OK I’ll do that. I’ll ask every single GM employee and ex-employee how they feel about Mary and get back to tomorrow 😉
Ok, this is from Canada. From a shareholders perspective and future car buyers perspective, I am trying to figure out what she has done right besides not bankrupting the company and going alone with the political decision to have an all BEV lineup. From a customer perspective, Outside of the Corvette (which I can’t afford), gm doesn’t make anything I want except for the top end Chevy Malibu and possibly the Colorado. Everything else is soo overloaded with stuff, I don’t want it. The only cars I did like, she has discontinued.
She’s all in on EVs. This is a make or break move for gm. She should get all in on gm building vehicles with world class quality, reliability and dependability.
Personally betting on Toyota over the next 5 + years. If you own GM stock, you are a riverboat gambler.
It was so hip to be negative
So square to try and believe
Bob Seger – Back in ‘72
You guys are jealous misogynists . Now go look it because I know you don’t know what that means 😉
Sounds more like you are triggered and doing a bunch of gm dick riding considering you are replying to everyone in the comments
Seems you’re the one obsessed with dick, Mr. Getoffmynutz lololol
How many months pregnant are you? Do you know who the father is? You are on all these dudes nuts in these comments you better call Maury.
I would venture to say part of the reason she got the job is because she is a woman. Sorry.
What a stupid comment
No offense but you sound like a cuck
Face it. The reason why Barra gets so much press is because she is a woman CEO. I do not see other CEOs of automakers getting as much press.
Mary Barra should rightfully be recognized for her sizable contribution to Made in China 2025
GM is one of the top sellers in China, and the Buick brand sells extremely well there. China is the world’s largest auto market and growing larger by the day. Mary Barra, Mark Reuss and the entire Board of Directors understand this and are taking care of business. They would be fools to do otherwise. Bunch of know-nothings here. Done with you morons. Good luck with your bitter little existence. Me, I’m laughing all the way to the bank, because I know which way the wind is blowing. Always have and always will. See you suckers! LOLOLOLOL
Yer dun? Promise?
Ya cain’t be all bout goin Green and Social Justyce an all that and turn yer back on all them human rahts violations and enviernmenal pollution o’er there in Chynaa, my mayn. Ya gotsta pick a side or you’ll ferever git confused bout raht n wrong. Like izzat a mayn er a womyn? All bout science when conveynient and “F” it when it ain’t, raht?? Weren’t that a LBGT flayg a flyin o’er our embassy in Afghanistan in June an whot’re ya gonna say when them Taliban start a throwin them gays and womynfolk off the same stinkin buildin in September? Are you fer them Uyghers or are you just sum kinda dumazz chump lahk the rest of em Democrayts?
Bye!!!
You’re a pawn
Will someone please inform Mr. GM Retired that it’s called a “Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering” or BSME, which he clearly doesn’t have. There’s no such thing as a Bachelor’s of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering as he claims to have earned. Knucklehead.
Someone called me and said you need help figuring out who the father of your kid is? I’ll be more then happy to help. I was also told there is 12 different men who could be the father.
Green you need to look at how many likes / dislikes you have. Looks like you are under water. Wise up.
Yes as rated by a bunch of misogynistic uniformed losers who couldn’t find their arse with both hands LOL
What would a CEO be worth if they actually increased market share.
No they’re car people or they wouldn’t be here
“Oh, we won’t give in
We’ll keep living in the past”
– Jethro Tull
Go green has gone weird
Now there’s revolution, but they don’t know
What they’re fighting
Let us close our eyes
Outside their lives go on much faster
Oh, we won’t give in
We’ll keep living in the past
Oh, we won’t give in
Let’s go living in the past
Oh no, no we won’t give in
Let’s go living in the past
GM needs to revisit the past. 50 years ago they actually were leaders. What’s come out of that tech center since the Hydromatic Transmission?
As late as 2005, GM was the last major auto company still pushing a 3 speed automatic. That’s not leading, that’s dead last. What do you guys do all day? How does a much smaller company like Honda out engineer you in every way.
That’s another problem with gm, people tell them how to fix their problems and they get labeled as bitter, negative, not a team player. I don’t care, you guys agree with whatever Mary does. I label that as a brainless “yes man”. I’m retired now, I can buy whatever I want. Also, glad I took a lump sum pension. I would hate to rely on GM sending me a check every month for the next 30 years. We all seen what they did to the Delphi salary retirees. $0