Study: CEOs earn 614 times more than workers at 100 low‑pay firms
At the 100 lowest-paying major corporations — including Walmart, DoorDash, and Amazon — CEO pay averaged $17.5M in 2025. Median worker pay was just $36,571, a ratio of 614 to 1. Those same 100 companies spent $108.6B on stock buybacks last year. How can anyone defend this?
RuffHouse Matt37Exactly. Investor class always claiming that poor people are just lazy. Yet they take more and more of the GDP back into capital while less and less goes to labor despite rising labor productivity. It's just plain theft. They get rich off other people's work.
Tholken for a reason.22we need a maximum wage no corporation should be paying CEO more than 500% what the lowest employee makes.
MJ 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈19They should have paid $107B in taxes
Sinjin Cooper15Anyone? The rich can defend it, because it made them richer. And we decided, as a nation and a culture, that what the rich decide is the only thing that matters. It’s not actually written into the constitution that way, but it might as well be.
VictoriousYankee13“This is fine as long as I get to keep my .50 caliber long range sniper rifle and still get the treat my wife/sister like property.” -fox state tv propaganda viewer
Watchdog Progressive12$37K...... Not even close to what is needed to live in San Diego area. "Median rent is around $2304 to $2533 but 1-bedrooms still average over $3000." (Harland Property Management). Do the math.
William K. Cody2If there was a town of 615, & 1 person had as much wealth, property, & income as ALL the other people in the town together, most people would consider that unfair. But that is the reality across all of America. The oligarchs are robbing their workers & therefore most Americans languish in poverty.
So Sayeth Black Lord:2It’s frustrating that we have all the data on this, but if anything changes it’ll take forever and not be sufficient.
So CEOs are working 614 times harder, and workers are 614 times lazier? 🐂 💩
the-original-ray.bsky.social1When a small class of people are allowed to hoard enough wealth to buy politicians, police, and judges, that country becomes a plutocrasy. The people no longer rule themselves, they become ruled by the wealthy.
Pro-Democracy Indiana Resister 🇺🇸 🔄 🆘 🟦1CEOs would be the first jobs replaced by AI if CEOs were actually working for their shareholders.
Be_three1Seems like CEOs are the first people who should be replaced by AI
Crabby Phatty with Cheese 🧀1Somehow I hate him even more now that he is fully embracing looking like an old man. Not that looking like Dr. Evil with a big bald head was ever attractive or appealing, but now he just reminds me of every old entitled white Boomer shithead I've ever met instead.
