claim: "on average it takes 300 americans working for a solid year to make as much money as one top ceo."
author: hillary clinton
evidence_1: feb 12, 2016 ... a campaign ad for hillary tells us that “on average, it takes 300 americans  working for a solid year to make as much money as one top ceo.
evidence_2: feb 10, 2016 ... ... working for a solid year to make as much money as one top ceo. ... in the us  make 300 times more than an average full-time american worker? ... “on average , it takes only 4.4 average americans working for a solid year to ...
evidence_3: jun 22, 2015 ... but then from 1990 to 2000 it jumped from 60 to well over 300 ... after all, when a  hired ceo makes more in a single workday (based on ... and every year this  process is repeated, pushing pay higher and ... is not going to take the job for  below-average compensation. ... america's 5 worst big company ceos.
evidence_4: jan 1, 2018 ... most americans think that ceo compensation is too high. ... what do the ceos of  big companies actually do all day? there are studies that say ceos make 200  times the wage of an average employee at their company. ... for the past few  years, afl-cio has been tracking executive pay at s&p 500 ...
evidence_5: jun 21, 2015 ... ceo compensation in 2013 (the latest year for data on top wage earners) was ...  to the pay of a typical worker who works in a firm with roughly 1,000 workers. ....  average worker pay saw relatively strong growth over that period (relative to .....  the last column in table 1 is the resulting ratio in select years.