US CEOs earn 254 times more than the average worker
The Chief Executive Officers of the 500 largest companies in the US were paid around 254 times more than the average worker in 2016, according to data from Equilar. The median pay for CEOs rose to $11 million (over â¹70 crore), a 6.1% increase since the previous year. Notably, the increase is the highest Equilar has seen in 17 years.