CEO pay packages hit another high last year, and some of the Seattle area’s largest companies are contributing to that trend.

As CEO pay climbed, the median wage for workers of America’s largest corporations rose as well, according to compensation data analysis firm Equilar. Reports from the firm for the past five years show upticks in pay for both CEOs and workers, but with the former showing faster growth most years.

The most recent compensation packages for a veteran CEO like Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and a relative newcomer like Starbucks’ Brian Niccol amount to almost $100 million on paper. But it’s not all cash that they’re receiving, as most of their compensation is tied up in stock awards, a common pay structure for top executives in corporate America.

It also doesn’t mean they’

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