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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
Despite getting slapped with a pay cut of 35%, CEO Albert Bourla's salary of $21.6 million was still 291 times higher than the average worker's salary of $74,000. Ceri Breeze/istockphoto 18.
According to the AFL-CIO, America's largest labor union, the average S&P 500 CEO earned $15.5 million last year -- 299 times more than the average U.S. worker -- and got a pay raise of $700,000 in ...
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 2019 the highest paid CEO was Tesla's Elon Musk at $595.3 million [15] The U.S. has the world's highest CEO's compensation relative to manufacturing production workers. According to one 2005 estimate the U.S. ratio of CEO's to production worker pay is 39:1 compared to 31.8:1 in UK; 25.9:1 in Italy; 24.9:1 in New Zealand. [16]
There has been a resurgence in the importance of the wage ratio as well as the CEO Pay Ratio. The amount of money paid out to executives has steadily been on the rise. In the US "an April 2013 study by Bloomberg finds that large public company CEOs were paid an average of 204 times the compensation of rank-and-file workers in their industries.
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Ratio of the average compensation of CEOs from the top 350 firms and production workers, 1965–2009. Source: Economic Policy Institute. 2012. Based on data from Wall Street Journal/Mercer, Hay Group 2010. [1] [2] The CEO Pay Ratio is a wage ratio.