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The gap between rich and poor is widening, and nowhere is it more apparent than American CEO salaries. Find out which companies have the largest wage gap between the CEO and its average worker
Since the 1990s, CEO compensation in the U.S. has outpaced corporate profits, economic growth and the average compensation of all workers. Between 1980 and 2004, Mutual Fund founder John Bogle estimates total CEO compensation grew 8.5 per cent/year compared to corporate profit growth of 2.9 per cent/year and per capita income growth of 3.1 per cent.
In an in-depth analysis of the 100 S&P 500 corporations with the lowest median worker pay levels in 2022, the Institute for Policy Studies found that the average CEO-worker pay gap was 603-to-1.
In 2023, CEO Darren Woods earned about 200 times the average worker's pay in 2023, with a compensation package of nearly $37 million. Woods was given a 3% raise from the previous year. Woods was ...
At Ross Stores, for example, the company says its employee at the very middle of the pay scale was a part-time retail store associate who made $8,618. It would take 2,100 years earning that much to equal CEO Barbara Rentler’s compensation from 2023, valued at $18.1 million.
When looking at the CEO-to-worker pay gap, it might be shocking to learn that toy company Mattel’s CEO pay raise didn’t even keep up with inflation. However, considering a salary of $16.1 ...
Defenders of high executive pay say that the global war for talent and the rise of private equity firms can explain much of the increase in executive pay. For example, while in conservative Japan a senior executive has few alternatives to his current employer, in the United States it is acceptable and even admirable for a senior executive to ...
United States: The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which began in 2018, requires publicly traded companies to report a "pay ratio", which is the ratio of the CEO's to the median employee's pay. [17] For example, in 2018 McDonald's CEO's ratio was 3,101:1 (although the median pay was of a worker in Poland), while in ...