Four CEOs earn over $100 million each in 2025 compensation
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Updated · News18 · May 1
Four CEOs earn over $100 million each in 2025 compensation
3 articles · Updated · News18 · May 1
Blackstone, Broadcom, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft chiefs were among a top 10 whose combined pay exceeded $1 billion, while average CEO compensation rose to $8.4 million.
ITUC and Oxfam said global CEO pay increased 11% in real terms in 2025, versus 0.5% for workers, meaning executive earnings grew 20 times faster.
Since 2019, real worker wages have fallen 12% while CEO pay jumped 54%; the groups urged caps on executive pay, fairer taxation and stronger labour rights.
A CEO's pay now equals 490 years of worker wages. Is this the new price of corporate success?
With executive pay growing 20 times faster than wages, is a global economic reckoning now inevitable?
As executive pay soars on AI hype and stock gains, what happens when market optimism eventually fades?