Americans are fed up with massive CEO pay packages.
More than 8 in 10 (83%) Americans say it’s important for businesses to avoid a major pay gap between CEOs and average employees,
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/12/business/ceo-pay-poll-gallup/index.html
200 YEARS
The gap between the person in the corner office and everyone else keeps getting wider. At half the companies in this year’s survey, it would take the worker at the middle of their employer’s pay scale almost 200 years to make what their CEO did — with those CEOs making at least 196 times what their median employee earned, up from 185 times last year.
$16.3 million
That was the median pay package of CEOs last year, up 12.6% from 2022. The $16.3 million marks a midpoint, meaning half the CEOs made more and half made less.
CEO pay jumped nearly 13% last year, more than three times the 4.1% that wages and benefits netted by private-sector workers rose through 2023.
https://apnews.com/article/ceo-pay-packages-2023-numbers-acf14f0a4dc4f8e64aabaa1f0e4632ef