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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    3 days ago

    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.