With two-thirds of the S&P 500 reporting 2021 CEO compensation as of April 11, 2022, we can see which companies are in the 1,000+ CEO pay ratio club. There are 13 so far with David Zaslav at the newly merged Warner Bros. Discovery leading the group.

Using our CompanyIQ^® executive compensation database, we analyzed the CEO pay ratios of S&P 500 companies from 2017-2021. We found that the average CEO pay ratio for these five years is 288 and the median ranged from 155 to 186.

Our report also covers CEO pay, median employee pay, and the highest and lowest pay ratios.