The pay gap between executives and their employees has widened from 2024 to 2025, with chief executives making 312 times what their median worker earned, according to the AFL-CIO, the largest coalition of labour unions in the United States.
That’s up from the previous rate of 285 times the median worker salary for executives working in the companies listed on the S&P 500 index.
why do shareholders tolerate ballooning ceo pay? they think number still go up more overall if big idiot get more of the profit?