Top 500 US company CEOs earn 312 times the average employee salary

A report from the AFL-CIO reveals that the typical pay gap between CEOs and employees at S&P 500 firms hit 312:1 in the previous year. If Elon Musk’s pay package at Tesla is factored in, that ratio jumps to 5,387:1. When accounting for Musk’s stock options, the mean compensation for an S&P 500 CEO climbed to $340.1 million.