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Employee – CEO pay gap historically wide
The pay gap between America’s corporate leaders and their workers grew even larger in 2024, according to the AFL-CIO’s annual Executive Paywatch report, released Wednesday.
The pay gap between America’s corporate leaders and their workers grew even larger in 2024, according to the AFL-CIO’s annual Executive Paywatch report, released Wednesday. The highest-paid CEO of an S&P 500 company was Patrick Smith of Axon Enterprise, which manufactures Tasers and other weapons for law enforcement and the military. The report listed Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol as making 6,666 times more than the company’s typical worker, the largest pay gap in the S&P 500.
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