CEO pay dipped in 2022 but remains enormous compared with the pay of other workers. CEOs are granted massive compensation packages by corporate boards because of their bargaining power, not because of their skills. CEOs’ exorbitant payouts have far outpaced the pay of typical workers over decades.    

Summary: CEO pay dipped in 2022 but remains enormous compared with the pay of other workers. CEOs are granted massive compensation packages by corporate boards because of their bargaining power, not because of their skills. CEOs’ exorbitant payouts have far outpaced the pay of typical workers over decades.

  • @dmtalon@infosec.pub
    5•9 months ago

    I’ll agree with being very surprised if the average non-supervisor worker salary was $56,680 in 1978. Running that number in a couple pages comparing what that is in today’s dollars is over $250k

    • Lodespawn
      5•9 months ago

      Are you sure they haven’t already adjusted the 1978 figure for inflation?

      • @agent_flounderEnglish
        4•9 months ago

        They probably did. My parents combined didn’t make $50k in the 70s. They didn’t even make that by the late 80s at best. We were in the lower middle class. I’m pretty sure 50k in 78 would’ve been a lot of money. I recall the new family sedan costing about $7k in the mid 70s which works out to about $38k today… which is probably in the ball park.

      • @dmtalon@infosec.pub
        4•9 months ago

        Finally, the table shows inflation-adjusted changes in the stock market, as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index.

        That makes it $12.5k/yr ish which looks a lot more reasonable.