The “Overpaid CEO Act” targets San Francisco companies with the biggest pay disparities between workers and the C-suite, and the firms shelling out to tank it are among those with the widest gaps, a new analysis shows.

The analysis published Tuesday by the Institute for Policy Studies, a nonprofit focused on progressive issues, shows that in 2025, at least seven of the companies that are paying out to defeat the measure had pay gaps between their median worker and CEOs above the 100-to-1 ratio threshold the proposed law targets. READ MORE