Energy Executives Dominate Houston’s Highest Earners List

More than half of Houston’s ten highest-paid corporate executives in 2020 were managers of companies in the oil and gas industry, the Houston Chronicle reports. Six out of the ten top earners of Houston-based companies were from the energy sector, despite the fact that last year was one of the most difficult in the U.S. oil and gas industry, which had to cope with the crash in oil prices and demand during the pandemic. Even amid the crisis, companies were careful in changing pay to executives, Ani Huang, president and CEO of the Center on…