As CEO Salaries Explode, Worker Pay Continues to Stagnate
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As CEO salaries explode, worker pay continues to stagnate
CEOs got an 11% raise in 2025; workers just 0.5%. The average top exec now makes 490 years of a typical employee's wages. Top global CEO pay increased 20 times faster than workers' pay in 2025, while at least four CEOs of major corporations each pocketed over $100 million in pay and bonuses last year. At a time when the global workforce is concerned about keeping up with the challenges imposed by artificial intelligence in the workplace, corpora…
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Median CEO pay jumped 23.2% to $29.4 million in 2025 while the CEO-worker pay gap widened to 341:1, according to new data, raising new questions about fairness, AI-driven incentives and executive compensation. CEO pay didn’t just rise in 2025, it accelerated sharply, reshaping the conversation about fairness, performance, and corporate values. Median compensation for CEOs at large U.S. companies climbed 23.2% to $29.4 million, the steepest incre…
LONDON – The directors-general of the world’s largest companies enjoyed a wage increase of 11 percent in real terms last year, while the average worker’s real salary only increased 0.5 percent, revealed an international coalition report against poverty Oxfam. According to the study, [...]
May 1, 2026 — The remuneration of the leaders of the world's largest companies increased by 11 per cent in real terms in 2025, while the average real wages of wage earners rose by only 0.5 per cent, reveals a new analysis by Oxfam and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). The analysis, released on the occasion of International Workers' Day, covers the 1,500 most remunerating companies in 33 countries that reported their CEO's remun…
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