Companies are doing a lousy job of dealing with CEO-to-worker pay gaps, survey says

Eighty-four percent of Americans think it’s important for companies to avoid a major pay gap between CEOs and employees, and yet only 15% of Americans believe companies are doing a good job of reining in such gaps, according to a new confidence survey from Bentley University and Gallup.

The study, released this month, found that 97% of Americans also say it is important for business to make money in an ethical way. However, only 32% of Americans say businesses are accomplishing this. READ MORE

Executive pay climbed again in 2025—and the CEO-to-worker gap kept widening

Elon Musk earned more in fiscal year 2025 than any other public company executive—by an almost incomprehensible margin.

His $158.4 billion Tesla stock award, reinstated by the Delaware Supreme Court after years of litigation, placed him atop the annual executive compensation rankings published by C-Suite Comp, whose data covers approximately 3,700 public company chief executives and whose figures reflect fiscal year 2025 for most companies. The award was so large C-Suite Comp removed Musk as a statistical outlier before calculating broader market trends. READ MORE