CEO vs. Employee Salary [Interactive Infographic]

Katheryn Watson http://www.ecardshack.com 2m 570 #ceosalary

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How Much Do Top Tech CEOs Make Compared To Their Employees?

As you might expect, it pays to be a Chief Executive Officer of a large corporation. The average pay for a CEO in the UK is £93,285 per year – however that is a far cry from the paycheck’s for the CEOs of Silicon Valley where the big bucks are made.

Since 1978, CEO pay has increased by a whopping 937% and the typical worker’s compensation grew a tiny 10.2% over the same period of time. Dealing with such a huge pay gap is it wrong that the Chief Executive of a successful company is paid hundreds of times the salary of his or her average employee? Or are technology CEO positions demanding enough, requiring a portfolio of highly specialised skills, to deserve such high paying salaries? The home of business ecards, eCard Shack, compared some of the top tech CEO salaries to average worker’s pay to reveal the huge difference in take home salaries.
It may, or may not, come as a surprise that some of the largest businesses and corporations on the planet are victims of the biggest salary differences: culprits include Google, Oracle, Salesforce and IBM. The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, made a whopping $100.6 million in total compensation last year. The average Google employee receives $89,000; that’s a pay ratio of 1:1130 – the difference in pay could buy the average worker 130,745 of the latest Google Pixel phones! Google is noted to have the largest CEO to worker pay gap.

But, this strategy does not apply to all technology giants. Amazon, Dell, Facebook and Apple have the lowest difference between CEO and average employee salaries. Possibly even more surprising still is that Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has a lower salary than his average employees; a measly $37,584 compared to their take home of $95,224.

So, how much more do the highest-paid tech CEOs really earn compared to their workers?

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PUTTING TECH PAY IN PERSPECTIVE:

How much do top tech CEOs make compared to their employees?

ORACLE

CEO: Larry Ellison
CEO Pay: $41,518,534
Avg. Worker Pay: $74,000
Pay ratio: 1:561

DELL

CEO: Michael Dell
CEO Pay: $2,392,918
Avg. Worker Pay: $64,000
Pay ratio: 1:37

GOOGLE

CEO: Sundar Pichai
CEO Pay: $100,632,102
Avg Worker Pay: $89,000
Pay ratio: 1:1130

FACEBOOK

CEO: Mark Zuckerberg
CEO Pay: $5,037,841
Avg. Worker Pay: $75,000
Pay ratio: 1:67

APPLE

CEO: Tim Cook
CEO Pay: $10,281,327
Avg. Worker Pay: $72,000
Pay ratio: 1:143

HP

CEO: Dion Wiseler
CEO Pay: $18,727,803
Avg. Worker Pay: $63,000
Pay ratio: 1:297

TESLA

CEO: Elon Musk
CEO Pay: $37,584
Avg. Worker Pay: $95,224
Pay ratio: 2:3

CISCO

CEO: Chuck Robbins
CEO Pay: $16,034,571
Avg. Worker Pay: $85,000
Pay ratio: 1:189

LINKEDIN

CEO: Jeff Weiner
CEO Pay: $19,859,981
Avg. Worker Pay: $95,000
Pay ratio: 1:209

IBM

CEO: Ginni Rometty
CEO Pay: $19,821,950
Avg. Worker Pay: $60,000
Pay ratio: 1:330

QUALCOMM

CEO: Steven Mollenkopf
CEO Pay: $10,372,325
Avg. Worker Pay: $71,000
Pay ratio: 1:146

EBAY

CEO: Devin Wenig
CEO Pay: $14,509,427
Avg. Worker Pay: $63,000
Pay ratio: 1:230

INTEL

CEO: Brian Krzanich
CEO Pay: $14,633,500
Avg. Worker Pay: $74,000
Pay ratio: 1:198

MICROSOFT

CEO: Satya Nadella
CEO Pay: $17,692,031
Avg. Worker Pay: $95,000
Pay ratio: 1:186

SALESFORCE

CEO: Marc Benioff
CEO Pay: $33,362,903
Avg. Worker Pay: $101,000
Pay ratio: 1:330

ADOBE

CEO: Shantanu Narayen
CEO Pay: $18,357,186
Avg. Worker Pay: $87,000
Pay ratio: 1:211

SAMSUNG

CEO: Yoon Boo Keun, Jong-Kyun Shin, Kwon Oh-hyun
CEO Pay: $13,130,000
Avg. Worker Pay: $68,000
Pay ratio: 1:193

PAYPAL

CEO: Daniel Schulman
CEO Pay: $14,444,491
Avg. Worker Pay: $69,000
Pay ratio: 1:209

AMAZON

CEO: Jeff Bezos
CEO Pay: $1,681,840
Avg. Worker Pay: $85,000
Pay ratio: 1:19

YAHOO

CEO: Marissa Meyer
CEO Pay: $36,000,000
Avg. Worker Pay: $126,000
Pay ratio: 1:286

Source: http://content.aira.net/ceo-tech-pay/index.html

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