13 S&P 500 CEOs Belong to the Thousand Times Plus Club – Our review of the 359 proxy statements filed by S&P 500 companies as of April 14, 2020 indicates that 13 CEOs made more than 1,000 times their employees’ median annual salary in 2019. The chart on page 2 and the table on page 3 with data from the CompanyIQ^® executive compensation database have the details.

Minutes to Earn Annual Median Salary – All of these 13 CEOs earn their employees’ median salary in two hours or less.

249 is the Average CEO Pay Ratio – The average CEO pay ratio for these 359 companies is almost 250 times their employees’ median annual salary.

Reported Average Median Employee Pay is Above $80,000 – $14 Million is the Average CEO Pay – The average CEO pay for these 359 companies is $14,065,475.