Summary: CEO pay dipped in 2022 but remains enormous compared with the pay of other workers. CEOs are granted massive compensation packages by corporate boards because of their bargaining power, not because of their skills. CEOs’ exorbitant payouts have far outpaced the pay of typical workers over decades.
We live in a fucked up world.
Replace CEOs with AI first
We would, but we haven’t been able to design an AI system that’s sufficiently sociopathic.
I question these numbers. I don’t disagree there is entirely too much disparity between lowest and highest paid workers, but just cannot believe 15.3% is accurate. Just looking at minimum wage in 1978.
$2.65/hr in 1978, and 15.3% growth of that puts it at $3.06.
They are using the term “Private-sector production/nonsupervisory workers annual compensation” which has a number of $58,680 for 1978??? Table is about a third of the way down the page. That seems really high. Compared to 2022 of $67,700 (which feels probably pretty close) that’s where the 15.3% comes in. I’m not really sure that makes it any clearer though but does explain why minimum wage doesn’t fit with the % change.
I’ll agree with being very surprised if the average non-supervisor worker salary was $56,680 in 1978. Running that number in a couple pages comparing what that is in today’s dollars is over $250k
Are you sure they haven’t already adjusted the 1978 figure for inflation?
They stole our money.