Did the typical S&P 500 CEOs earn in lower than two days what their typical employee earned in all of 2023?

Last updated: July 17, 2025 5:09 pm

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Did the typical S&P 500 CEOs earn in lower than two days what their typical employee earned in all of 2023?

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In 2023, the typical S&P 500 CEO earned $17.1 million in complete compensation in contrast with $63,800 earned by the typical employee in an S&P 500 firm. For the CEO that works out to $46,849 a day.

As a result of common compensation charges embody excessive outliers, it’s notable that median pay variations between CEOs and staff in 2023 additionally yielded related outcomes.

The median S&P 500 CEO earned $16.3 million in 2023 whereas the median employee for these firms earned round $81,400. Outliers however, CEOs nonetheless earned their staff’ annual pay in rather less than two days.

This phenomenon continued in 2024 because the median S&P 500 CEO pay jumped practically 10% and employee compensation elevated by lower than 1.05%.

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Sreejita Patra joined Wisconsin Watch as a statehouse reporting intern in June 2025. She is presently pursuing a journalism main at UW-Madison’s College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the place she is a rising junior. Sreejita works for Madison’s scholar newspaper The Every day Cardinal and freelances for numerous Madison-based newspapers. She hopes to at some point pursue investigative or options reporting, notably on the South Asian diaspora.

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