The average CEO of the US’s 100 largest, lowest-paying corporations earned 614 times more than their average worker last year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).
IPS’s latest executive excess report analyzed compensation at the 100 S&P 500 corporations with the lowest median worker pay. Between 2019 and 2025, CEO compensation increased 41.4%, unadjusted for inflation, twice as much as the median worker pay increased at these firms during the same period, at 20.7%.
Inflation also outpaced worker pay increases, rising by 25.9%.
The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at the low-wage 100 firms increased 8.4% between 2019 and 2025.
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The initial goal post was “This has to end, nobody is worth that much.”, referring to CEOs making 614 times more than workers. Their wealth being in billions or millions was not mentioned. The goal post was not moved.
The literal next comment is about how billionaires shouldn’t exist, putting a value on the aforementioned “they’re not worth that much”.
You can’t just ignore context to twist things how you want to lmao.
Billionaires are a subcategory of people with too much money.
But also what’s your point here? Just pedentry? Defending CEO wealth at this 614:1 ratio? Defending billionaires right to exist?
Getting basic fundamental facts from the linked article correct. That’s my point. You cannot have any argument to stand on if you start from a false position.
You seem to have imagined a link between
And
as if they were trying to say that the people in the articles are billionaires. That’s illusionary. There’s a full stop.
This
Was the point. That some are only millionaires is irrelevant. Billionaire is a subtype of “too rich” used as an example.
No fundamental facts are in error.
Just insufferable.