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CEO worker pay ratio 632 to 1 exposes a low-wage economy built to reward the top

632-to-1 is the average CEO-to-worker pay gap at America's 100 largest low-wage S&P 500 employers in 2024, up from 560-to-1 in 2019, with Starbucks topping the entire index at a staggering 6,666-to-1.

4 Jul 2026 ·10 min read
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