It would take the average S&P 500 company worker almost 200 years to make what a typical S&P 500 CEO makes in one year, according to a recent Associated Press CEO compensation study. In 2024, the ...

Ten years ago, just months after announcing his presidential campaign, Donald Trump called sky-high CEO pay “disgraceful,” telling CBS’s Face the Nation in 2015: “You see these guys making enormous ...

The wage gap between CEOs and workers at the lowest-paying firms on the S&P 500 rose by almost 13% between 2019 and 2024, an analysis released Thursday shows, with CEO pay rising more than twice as ...

When compensation committees sit down to set a CEO’s salary, a routine part of the process is to consider the pay levels of direct competitors – the chief executives of similar-sized companies in the ...

Some public companies are required under federal law to report the difference in the amount of compensation between their chief executive officers and their median employee. We looked at this ratio ...

It’s nice work if you can get it. Virginia CEOs made an average of $10.17 million in total compensation in 2024, up from $9.4 million in 2023 — a 7.8% increase year-over-year. And the average ...

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95.8 million in 2024, while the median barista at the company made just $14,674, according to the AFL-CIO. The CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 6,666-to-1 is the largest ...

Average CEO pay, including stock awards and options, at the top 350 U.S. companies was $22.98 million in 2024, an analysis by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute showed — a nearly 6% increase ...

The Business Journal considers CEO pay to be the total compensation figure from the summary compensation table in each company’s proxy statement or annual report. The restricted stock awards and ...

FILE - The logo for Chewy appears above trading posts on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, June 14, 2019. The top dogs at Chewy, the Broward County-founded online pet goods retailer, had quite ...

Andrew Kessel was a breaking news writer for Investopedia until October 2025. He previously covered markets for Proactive Investors, with a focus on small-cap stocks in fintech, healthcare, mining, ...