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CEO pay fell last year. It’s still way higher than yours. – msn/WaPost

CEO pay declined in 2023. But it has soared 1,085% since 1978 compared with a 24% rise in typical workers’ pay – EPI

“CEOs are getting paid more because of their leverage over corporate boards, not because of their skills or contributions they make to their firms. Exorbitant CEO pay has contributed to rising inequality in recent decades as it has likely pulled up the pay of other top earners—concentrating earnings at the top and leaving fewer gains for ordinary workers.”

66% of Americans give companies a failing grade for CEO pay – CNN


Tech billionaires are on track to become the world’s first trillionaires. Who will get there first? – euronews.


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