Chief executive pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up.

The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase from a year earlier that was aided by a rising stock market, according to an analysis by the Associated Press using data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm.

Earnings: $25.7 million, unchanged from 2011

Earnings: $25.8 million.

Earnings: $26.8 million, an increase of 53 percent from 2011.

Earnings: $27.2 million, an increase of 8 percent from 2011.

Earnings: $28 million, a 25 percent increase from 2011.

Earnings: $28.5 million, an increase of 138 percent from 2011.

Chazen tied for the number 15 spot with $28.5 million.

Earnings: $28.9 million, an increase of 80 percent from 2011.

Earnings: $29.7 million, an increase of 81 percent from 2011.

Earnings: $30 million, an increase of 184 percent from 2011.

Earnings: $33.4 million, a decrease of 22 percent from 2011.

Earnings: $35.2 million, an increase of 219 percent from 2011.

Earnings: $36.6 million

Earnings: $37.1 million, an increase of 79 percent from 2011.

Earnings: $37.1 million, an increase of 18 percent from 2011.

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Earnings: $38.6 million.

Earnings: $40.7 million, an increase of 261 percent from 2011.

Earnings: $49.9 million, a 5 percent decrease from 2011.

Earnings: $60.3 million, a 12 percent decrease from 2011.

Earnings: 64.9 million, a 680 percent increase from 2011.

Earnings: 96.2 million, an increase of 24 percent from 2011.