44. ceo compensation the total compensation of the chief executive officers (ceos) of the 800 largest u. s. companies (the fortune 800) averaged (in thousands of dollars) 10,307.31 with a standard deviation (also in $1000) of 17,964.62. here is a histogram of their annual compensations (in $1000): 400 300 200 100 0 compensation in $1000 100,000 200,000 0 a) describe the histogram of total compensation. a research organization simulated sample means by drawing samples of 30, 50, 100, and 200, with replacement, from the 800 ceos. the histograms show the distributions of means for many samples of each size