Chief executives earned an average of $17.2m each last year and their pay grew more than 1000 % since 1978, survey finds
Chief executives at the US’s top companies took home $17.2m in pay last year – 278 times the salary of their average worker.
Between 1978 and 2018, the average pay of the bosses of the US’s largest 350 companies has grown by 1,007.5%, according to the Economics Policy Institute’s latest survey.
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