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Jack Kelly Contributor - Dec 27, 2024
Forbes article about CEO compensation +1,000% increase over the past 50 years vs worker’s 24%. Their main focus is stick price and not the company’s long term growth or employee’s because it’s self-serving and they have a rigged rubber stamp BOD system in place.
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It’s not your imagination—CEO compensation has significantly outpaced average worker salaries over the years.
The pay for chief executives at major companies in the United States increased by an astonishing 1,085% from 1978 to 2023, while the typical worker's earnings rose by only 24%, as reported by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
CEOs earned approximately $1.87 million annually in 1978, which ballooned to $22.21 million by last year. In contrast, private-sector workers saw a much more modest change: their annual earnings grew from $57,000 to just $71,000 over the same nearly 50-year period. These figures have been carefully adjusted for inflation, making the comparison even more striking.
In 2023, chief executives earned 290 times the salary of an average worker, a significant increase compared to 1965, when their compensation was only 21 times that of a typical employee.
“CEOs are getting paid more because of their leverage over corporate boards, not because of their skills or contributions they make to their firms,” the EPI report stated. “Exorbitant CEO pay has contributed to rising inequality in recent decades as it has likely pulled up the pay of other top earners—concentrating earnings at the top and leaving fewer gains for ordinary workers.”