Days of CEO Pay for the S&P 500 in 2018

2,609 to 7 – In the second year of public company disclosures about CEO pay ratios and median employee salaries there is a wide range of pay ratios with a high of 2,609 for Aptiv (NYSE: APTV) to a low of 7 for Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK).

124 Companies – MyLogIQ reviewed the 124 S&P 500 companies that have disclosed CEO pay ratios in their 2019 annual proxy reports filed with the SEC through March 19, 2019. The internal pay ratio compares a CEO’s total compensation with that company’s median employee salary.

Half a Day to 38 Days – We looked at the 2018 pay of the 126 CEOs of these companies1 and found that in order to make the annual median salary of their workers who, on average, work 255 days in a year:

• 40 worked less than a day
• 47 worked less than two days
• 21 worked less than three days
• 13 worked less than five days
• 4 worked less than 10 days
• 1 worked less than 38.

For 40 CEOs, one day or less of work netted them the same pay as 255 days of work for their employees.