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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The laborers earn the money and the ceo just steals a massive cut for doing fuck all
"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!
And this is the average.
Well they work 614 times harder and smarter. They are irreplaceable!
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.
That’s not taking their portfolio into account. A lot of CEO compensation isn’t in cash. Bezos only had like an $80k salary as CEO of Amazon.
Also:
The wealth of at least 36 billionaires is linked to these low-wage 100 corporations
The wealth of the owners of the companies, sure.
Like they explicitly mention Walmart. The Waltons don’t hold any executive positions at Walmart anymore. There’s a couple on the board of directors, but largely they just hold onto their stock.
The CEO is a guy that started as an hourly employee in 1993, and his total compensation, including non-salary compensation and stock, is $29M.
And yes, the article does take their total compensation into account. That’s stated in the report the article talks about.
The average total CEO compensation of these 100 firms is $17M. That includes stock options and other perks.
I just saw some other propaganda saying how Walmart house brands are directly competing now and are actually good because the grandkids are involved with the company at the product level. Lol the Walton’s don’t make any decisions when it’s convenient and the Walton’s are directly involved when convenient. Since I have no real way to confirm because at this point it takes literally seeing it with my own fucking eyes over and over and over for that i can’t believe anything any of you say. Fuck this world. Fuck the Walton’s and their stupid fucking kids. Fuck the ceo of Walmart. 17 million is still too much.
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’sHenry 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.
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.
Capitalism working as intended.
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.
About time this had an update: https://xkcd.com/980/
Unfortunately people have zero willpower now a days. They couldn’t even get people to wear a damn mask for covid, bear case it saves your life, worst case omg it’s annoying wootie damn doo.
If they won’t wear something that might have their life, you think they can stop buying soda and Doritos?
The system is set up so that people are exhausted just trying to survive. It’s not willpower. The US is structured to eat its’ humans alive.
It would take a lot more than not buying soda or doritos.
