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.
The average CEO compensation among low-wage 100 corporations was $17.5m in 2025, compared with median worker pay of $36,571.
You can live a comfortable life with $5 million in the bank. No one needs $17m a year.
That’s irrelevant to the comment about billionaires.
The sequence as I understand it is
- no one needs that much money
- billionaires have more than that much money. They don’t need it.
- you: none of the ceos are billionaires
- me: fine, but they still don’t need that much money.
If anything, you pointing out that the CEOs aren’t billionaires is a distraction from the point.
No, that’s just moving the goalposts.
“Nobody should have a billion dollars”
“These CEOs don’t”
“Well they still make too much money!”
The initial goal post was “This has to end, nobody is worth that much.”, referring to CEOs making 614 times more than workers. Their wealth being in billions or millions was not mentioned. The goal post was not moved.
The literal next comment is about how billionaires shouldn’t exist, putting a value on the aforementioned “they’re not worth that much”.
You can’t just ignore context to twist things how you want to lmao.
Who gives a fuck?! Seriously! Who gives a fuck if someone is “moving the goalpost”. Are you having a debate?! Is your argument that this shit is okay? Do you need to come in and shit on everything for any particular reason?! Do you do this to people you know or does no one in real life listen to your annoying ass?
No one is debating you. No one is arguing. People are fucking over it and sometimes they might be hyperbolic or exaggerate or get it not quite right but the point is fucking clear and I refuse to believe you people don’t know this.
Tomato to’mah’to.
I have an idea
Slay Your
MastersCEO’s
Just did the math, and my CEO only made 25x as much as me last year. But that’s not counting the stock he was given, because that’s not actually income, apparently.
Henry Ford was somehow able to squeak by on 50x his worker’s base salary.
That, to me, would be a perfect cap on pay; also, all employed should have shares in the company in my opinion.
Every limit is arbitrary, such is life. Sadly, as it is now, “no limit” is obviously not working, they just rape more workers every year with no end in sight, their greed is boundless.
The stock market never should have been a thing to begin with.
Off with their heads
"The average CEO of the US’s 100 largest, lowest-paying corporations earned … "
‘Earned’. They worked a fiftieth as hard as their lowest-paid workers.
I’ve always known that the idea of CEOs being compared to elite athletes was utter bullshit, but seeing fElon supposedly running SIX companies puts the lie to that notion. Even if he never slept, he’d be working 28 hours MAX per company. That’s not enough hours to even qualify for benefits for us hoi polloi. But fElon is special.
Meanwhile, many companies won’t even let typical plebes moonlight on their own time for another company…but someone like fElon can operate six.
Also, many of these motherfuckers sit on the boards of other companies, too. But you plebes: no moonlighting, that might violate something about your “loyalty” to the company!
The laborers earn the money and the ceo just steals a massive cut for doing fuck all
Yes we get it. I don’t know why these has to be bothered as news.
The rich aren’t living in fear so it will bear repeating.
CEOs don’t ‘earn’ a cent. It’s all stolen.
Well they work 614 times harder and smarter. They are irreplaceable!
Capitalism working as intended.
im surprised its so small. Is it including all compensation? I would like to see a 100x maximum wage. Higher ups of all types should be trying to figure out how to get the lowest paid more pay so that they can raise their own.
Imagine preparing a group presentation for class. One designs the slides and illustrations, one does research, one some hands-on stuff, and one coordinates, plans and manages the group.
The presentation is a success. But the one who managed got the best grade, while the others got medium or bad grades.
Doesn’t seem fair, or does it?
This is capitalism in its current form.
Everyone contributes to the success of the project, company, institution. Everyone depends on each other for it, so the value of labour is rather evenly distributed. But for some arbitrary reason, those at the top just skim the profits that is generated by those beneath them, instead of distributing fairly.
There are companies that do it differently. With success. For example, https://www.wired.com/story/safetywing-remote-work-equal-salaries/
Let’s keep aiming for this change.
