The average CEO of the US’s 100 largest, lowest-paying corporations earned 614 times more than their average worker last year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).
IPS’s latest executive excess report analyzed compensation at the 100 S&P 500 corporations with the lowest median worker pay. Between 2019 and 2025, CEO compensation increased 41.4%, unadjusted for inflation, twice as much as the median worker pay increased at these firms during the same period, at 20.7%.
Inflation also outpaced worker pay increases, rising by 25.9%.
The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at the low-wage 100 firms increased 8.4% between 2019 and 2025.
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This has to end, nobody is worth that much. Even if they were, they shouldn’t have that much, because nobody needs that much.
Billionaires are a symptom of a society that is sick.
If there were no poor people, it would be more acceptable. But it will never be reasonable that some people make hundreds of times what other make on a full time job.
Almost none of these CEOs are billionaires though.