CEOs got an 11% pay raise in 2025. Workers got 0.5% |
CEOs got an 11% pay raise in 2025. Workers got 0.5%
CEO pay is on the rise in 2025, and the pace of growth is leaving the average worker far behind, according to a new report.
The leaders of some of the world’s biggest companies got an 11% pay bump last year, while the average worker globally got a measly 0.5% increase—that means CEO pay grew roughly 20 times faster than that of the average worker, according to a Friday study published by the International Trade Union Confederation and Oxfam.
The report, which looked at 1,500 companies across 33 countries, found that the average CEO was paid about $8.4 million last year, up from an average of $5.5 million in 2019.
The poster child of high executive pay, though, may be Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In November, shareholders approved a pay package for the world’s richest man that could award him up to $1 trillion worth of stock over 10 years if he........