Although much of the convenience retail industry consists of regional or small chains owned by private families or entities, some of the largest retailers are public entities that disclose their chief executives’ pay.
Total CEO compensation can include a range of stock- and equity-based awards that fluctuate considerably from year to year. As a result, an executive can make several million dollars more — or less — from year to year, even when their base salary remains unchanged.
This year’s list includes a new player, Yesway, which went public on the Nasdaq in April. Two notable competitors are absent: FEMSA, which is already publicly traded, and Cumberland Farms which may join in the future as it’s in the process of going public. Both retailers report senior-management compensation in aggregate rather than providing individual CEO totals, making it impossible to determine exactly how much their chief executives earned in 2025.
Here’s how the CEOs of some of the top publicly traded c-store retailers were paid last fiscal year, according to C-Store Dive’s analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
Joseph DePinto
7-Eleven Inc.
$84.3 million
In his final full fiscal year leading 7-Eleven before retiring at the end of 2025, Joseph DePinto earned 13.4 billion yen, or about $84.3 million at Aug. 14 conversion rates, according to parent company Seven & i Holdings’ latest annual securities report. This was a significant jump from the 4.3 billion yen DePinto took home in fiscal 2024, but the increase was largely driven by the more than 10 billion yen severance payout he received upon his retirement, per the report. Without that bump, DePinto would have earned less than what he did in fiscal 2024, as his salary and performance-based incentives were slightly lower in 2025 than in the previous year.
Wael Sawan
Shell plc
$18.1 million
Shell CEO Wael Sawan took home over $18 million in fiscal 2025, a significant increase from the $11 million he garnered in fiscal 2024, according to the company’s annual 20-F filing. Sawan saw increases across several compensation categories, including base salary, taxable benefits, pension and share rewards. The year-over-year bump came despite Sawan receiving less in his annual bonus compared to 2024, per the filing.
Effective Jan. 1, Sawan received a salary increase of 4%, and his salary for 2026 is expected to be 1.6 million pounds, or more than $2.1 million at Aug. 14 conversion rates, according to the filing.
Darren Rebelez
Casey’s General Stores
$14.7 million
Darren Rebelez, president, chairman and CEO of Casey’s, set a new personal compensation record in Casey’s latest fiscal year. His $14.7 million was more than $4 million higher than the roughly $10.6 million he earned each year during the three previous fiscal years, and far exceeded the $9 million and $8.2 million he garnered in 2022 and 2021, respectively. Rebelez’s previous highest-earnings fiscal year was 2020, when he took home $11.3 million.
The boosts to Rebelez’s record-setting compensation this past fiscal year came in several forms. His base salary, stock awards, non-equity incentive plan compensation and “all other compensation” were higher than in the previous year, per Casey’s latest proxy statement.
Joseph Kim
Sunoco
$12.3 million
Joseph Kim, president and CEO of Sunoco, saw his total compensation nearly double in fiscal 2025, surging from $6.3 million in 2024 to $12.3 million last year, according to the oil company’s latest annual report. That’s by far the most he’s made in a single year since taking the helm at Sunoco in 2018. The bulk of Kim’s pay increase came from his more than $9.9 million in unit awards, which soared past the $4.1 million he made in fiscal 2024.
Andrew Clyde
Murphy USA
$11.8 million
Last year was Andrew Clyde’s final full year as president and CEO of Murphy USA before he handed the keys to Mindy West, effective Jan. 1. Clyde’s total compensation surged about $700,000 from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025, reaching close to $11.8 million, according to Murphy’s latest proxy statement.
Although Clyde received less in stock and option awards, his salary was over $100,000 higher than in 2024, and he also garnered over $500,000 more in non-equity incentive plan compensation and about $80,000 more in “all other compensation,” per the statement.
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Eric Slifka
Global Partners LP
$11.2 million
Eric Slifka, Global Partners’ president and CEO since 2005, garnered just over $11 million in fiscal 2025, about $3 million less than the $14 million he earned in 2024, according to the company’s annual 10-K filing. Slifka’s 2025 compensation was nearly identical to what he earned in fiscal 2023, per the report. Slifka’s $1.1 million salary remained unchanged between 2024 and 2025, but his total compensation declined because of lower unit awards and non-equity incentive plan compensation.
Alex Miller
Alimentation Couche-Tard
$9.2 million
Couche-Tard President and CEO Alex Miller garnered about CA$12.8 million, or $9.2 million at Aug. 14 conversion rates, in the company’s fiscal 2026. This was about CA$3.4 million more than he earned the previous year, according to Couche-Tard’s latest management information circular. Miller’s salary, share units and stock options were all higher in fiscal 2026, but the biggest change came in his annual incentive, which rose to CA$2.8 million from CA$223,000 in 2025.
Miller’s increased earnings came after a year when Couche-Tard’s U.S. division logged what Miller called its “best performance in years."
Murray Auchincloss
BP plc
$7.2 million
In his final full year as BP’s CEO, Murray Auchincloss’ total compensation reached 5.3 million pounds, equivalent to approximately $7.2 million at Aug. 14 conversion rates, according to the oil giant’s latest annual report. This was similar to what Auchincloss earned in fiscal 2024, which BP now shows as slightly less than the figure C-Store Dive reported last year to reflect changes in the company’s share price and actual dividends received.
Auchincloss stepped down from BP in late December. He was succeeded by Meg O’Neill, who became CEO this past April.
Arie Kotler
Arko Corp.
$5.5 million
After seeing his total compensation decline for two straight years, Arie Kotler, president, chairman and CEO of Arko Corp., received a pay bump in fiscal 2025, according to the company’s latest proxy statement. Kotler garnered $5.5 million last year, which outpaced his 2024 earnings by about $700,000. Kotler received more than $400,000 in additional non-equity incentive plan compensation in 2025, and his salary also increased.
Will Monteleone
Par Pacific Holdings
$4.4 million
Will Monteleone, president and CEO of Par Pacific Holdings since 2024, earned more than $4 million in fiscal 2025 — a significant drop from the $9.8 million he took home the previous year, according to the company's latest proxy statement.
Although Monteleone’s salary, stock awards and non-equity incentive plan compensation were all higher in 2025 than in 2024, he didn’t receive any option awards. Those awards accounted for $6.6 million of his total compensation in 2024, according to the company’s proxy statement.
Tom Trkla
Yesway
$4.1 million
Yesway’s Chairman, President and CEO Tom Trkla is the newest addition to this list as the Texas-based convenience retailer went public in April. According to the company’s filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this spring, Trkla’s total compensation for fiscal 2025 was just over $4 million, about $500,000 more than the previous year. Trkla’s base salary in 2025 was about $1.5 million, and he received over $2.5 million in bonuses. Per the SEC filing, Trkla’s salary was increased to over $1.7 million for fiscal 2026, while Yesway approved a target bonus opportunity of 125%.
Charles Nifong
CrossAmerica Partners
$1.2 million
During his final full year as president and CEO of CrossAmerica Partners, Charles Nifong earned $1.2 million — a jump of more than $94,000 from 2024, according to the company's latest annual report. As in previous years, Nifong’s salary remained at $500,000, and he earned more in stock awards, non-equity incentive compensation and “all other compensation,” according to the report.
Nifong stepped down from his post in March when the company appointed Maura Topper, the daughter of CrossAmerica’s founder and chairperson Joseph Topper, as its new CEO.
