CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay

[Papageorgio]

No.
It is an ideology of Greed is Good.

No, when you recognize it, complain about but do nothing about it, it is envy.

 

[initforme]

Private companies can run the way they want to. Period. They can create their pay structure any way they wish. End of story. Don't like it then dont apply for any jobs there.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Solution? Why do you hate freedom? I am on the side of the winning team. CEO pay needs to rise 200X. Capitalism! If the workers weren't lazy they would get more.

So you have no solution. You just want to be a whiner. Have a nice day.

 

[marvin martian]

So you have no solution. You just want to be a whiner. Have a nice day.

It's very French of him...

 

[1srelluc]

The Boeing CEO should have went to prison.

So why didn't Biden's DOJ go after him? He left in 2020.

I guess Garland was too concerned over moms at school board meetings.

I share Granny's option of your Big Talk.

 

[Zincwarrior]

You ***** a lot but have yet to offer any ideas on solving the issue. Seems you just ***** because that is what you do.

You appear angry. I think this is great. They are the job creators and should be rewarded fully. Joe the farm worker is not a job creator.

 

[Muhammed]

I made four to ten times moar being self-employed than working fer the man.

Any tradesman who has reason to believe that they are smarter, more knowledgeable and/or more talented than thier boss should seriously consider starting their own business.

 

[Zincwarrior]

You're mocking 200x as inappropriate. What's your number?

Are you some kind of Marxist? There is no 'appropriate.' They are the job creators and take all the risk. They should get all the reward. Why do you hate freedom?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Any tradesman who has reason to believe that they are smarter, more knowledgeable and/or more talented than thier boss should seriously consider starting their own business.

See. Now you understand.

 

[martybegan]

In the U.S. alone, CEO pay increased 20.4 times faster than workers’ wages in the last year. For the 384 CEOs in the S&P 500 where data was available, pay increased by 25.6 percent between 2024 and 2025. Meanwhile, average hourly earnings for private sector workers increased by just 1.3 percent from 2024 to 2025 in real terms.


Here's the problem: studies like this one cherry pick the data they use for CEO pay to the top 384 execs and compare it to the millions of workers and that is dishonest. There are some 25,000 CEOs in America, maybe instead of highlighting the top people, we should look at the average CEO pay for all CEOs:

After two uncharacteristic years of decline in 2022 and 2023, CEO pay surged in 2024 and remained enormous compared with the pay of other workers, according to a new data tool on CEO pay provided by the Economic Policy Institute. Average realized CEO compensation—including stock awards and options—at the top 350 U.S. firms was $22.98 million in 2024, a 5.9% increase from 2023.

https://www.epi.org/press/ceo-pay-jumped-nearly-6-in-2024-ceos-made-281-times-as-much-as-the-typical-worker/

Which is not to say CEO pay isn't excessive, cuz it is. But it isn't as bad as some of the Left claim it is. Much of the CEO realized gains is due to stock options that increased in value thanks to the decisions those top guys make. The ordinary smuck on the assembly line doesn't have the smarts or the experience to make such decisions and that is why he/she doesn't make the big bucks.

Also people who get salaries don't have to worry about that salary dropping over time as with stock options.

 

[Rawley]

Are you some kind of Marxist? There is no 'appropriate.' They are the job creators and take all the risk. They should get all the reward. Why do you hate freedom?

OK, be an asshole.

 

[Muhammed]

See. Now you understand.

I've always understood.

That's why I started my own concrete business.

What you don't understand is what I didn't do.

I didn't ***** and whine in envy about how much money my boss made like a narcissistic little ***** with an overinflated sense of entitlement. Hell no! I'm great friends with him to this day.

 

[Papageorgio]

You appear angry. I think this is great. They are the job creators and should be rewarded fully. Joe the farm worker is not a job creator.

I’m not just bored with people whining nd complaining and not doing anything but whine and complain, you do that a lot here.

I don’t care about job creators or whatever nonsense you are spewing, you are a divider and thus a hater.

 

[Papageorgio]

OK, be an asshole.

That seems to be the only thing he is good at, too bad for him it doesn’t pay, he just spews crap.

 

[Muhammed]

If the workers weren't lazy they would get more.

If they're so lazy, then fire them. Quit bitching about it.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Then fire them.

AI is working on it!

 

[Muhammed]

AI is working on it!

Indeed. AI eliminated ~50,000 entry level white collar jobs just in 2025. We would have seen massive unemployment if we didn't deport so many illegals.

We are going to run out of illegals to deport.

I'm serious. AI job takeover is here NOW.