CEO Pay Continues to Rise as Typical Workers Are Paid Less

The growth of CEO and executive compensation overall was a major factor driving the doubling of the income shares of the top 1.0 percent and top 0.1 percent of ...

CEO pay slightly declined in 2022 - Economic Policy Institute

Cumulatively, however, from 1978–2022, top CEO compensation shot up 1,209.2% compared with a 15.3% increase in a typical worker's compensation.

The typical CEO makes nearly 200 times more than their workers

Median CEO pay hit $16.3 million in 2023, or nearly 200 times the typical worker's wages for the year, according to data analyzed for The Associated Press by ...

CEO pay fell last year despite a strong stock market, study finds

Despite the dip in 2023, CEOs were still paid 290 times what the average worker earned that year, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.

CEO pay is rising, widening the gap between top executives and ...

... keeps climber higher — and outpacing the wages of average workers today ... The gap is particularly wide at companies where employees earn lower ...

CEO Compensation Skyrockets While Workers' Pay Barely Keeps Up

Executive total compensation surged nearly 13% in 2023, outpacing both inflation and worker pay increases.

The CEO Pay Problem and What We Can Do About It

How big are today's CEO-worker pay gaps? ; In 2022, the ratio between CEO compensation at S&P 500 firms and average U.S. worker pay stood at 272- ...

CEO Pay Continues to Rise as Typical Workers Are Paid Less

Chief executive officers' pay, in particular, has risen far faster than that of other employees, including high earners. Economists Lawrence Mishel and Alyssa ...

CEO-worker pay gap rising and 'bad for business': report | HR Dive

The average CEO-to-worker pay ratio in this group was 603 to 1. Similarly, data ...

CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year

The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the ...

CEOs got hefty pay raises in 2023 while inflation burdened ... - PBS

NEW YORK (AP) — The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13 percent last year, ...

2024 Executive Paywatch - AFL-CIO

In 2023, CEO pay at S&P 500 companies increased 6% over the previous year—to an average of $17.7 million in total compensation. The average CEO-to-worker pay ...

Policy Memo: Legislation to Address Extreme Pay Disparity

As CEO compensation packages continue to grow, especially in companies employing large numbers of low-wage workers, employee compensation has remained flat.

Sky-high CEO pay is in focus as UAW workers demand higher wages

This kind of pay disparity was not always a given. In 1965, CEOs typically earned 20 times the typical worker's pay in their industries ...

CEO-worker pay gap has narrowed to 268:1, but that won't last

Meanwhile, compensation for CEOs has continued to rise. Since 2016, on average those in the S&P 500 have gotten raises every year except in ...

CEOs got smaller raises. It would still take the average worker ... - PBS

In contrast to recent years, CEO pay gains were lower than the 5.1 percent increase in wages and benefits netted by private-sector workers ...

Effects of Excessive CEO Pay on U.S. Society

compared to average workers, far lower than for U.S. corporations (O'Toole, 2005). This increase in pay for CEOs has not been in proportion to company ...

CEOs make nearly 200 times more than other workers and their pay ...

In 2023, the average CEO of an S&P 500 company earned 196 times as much as typical employees, up from 185 in 2022. Some 83% of Americans told ...

A New Measure Shows C.E.O. Pay at Even More Astronomical Levels

With new executive pay disclosures, the big picture is still riches at the top and lagging wages for most of the rank-and-file, ...

As inflation chews up worker pay, top CEOs got 7.7% raise last year

Average pay for top chief executives last year rose 7.7%, according to a report from Equilar, an executive compensation research firm.