CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year

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1. The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at a time when inflation was putting considerable pressure on Americans’ budgets.

   The median pay package for CEOs rose to $16.3 million, up 12.6%, according to data analyzed for The Associated Press by Equilar. Meanwhile, wages and benefits netted by private-sector workers rose 4.1% through 2023. At half the companies in this year’s pay survey, it would take the worker at the middle of the company’s pay scale almost 200 years to make what their CEO did.

   CEOs got rewarded as the economy showed remarkable resilience, underpinning strong profits and boosting stock prices. After navigating the pandemic, companies faced challenges from persistent inflation and higher interest rates. About two dozen CEOs in the AP’s annual survey received a pay bump of 50% or more.

2. This is ridiculous, there needs to be an equality to other positions compared to CEO. It’s not always the CEO that causes an increase in sales, sometimes its because of the people working on the ground and those people deserve some credit as well. If I go to Burger King and the service sucks, I’ll go somewhere else and to keep the service from not sucking you have to give benefits to the employees. As we have all noticed, service is getting worse everywhere because CEOS are hoarding the profit.

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