Fortune 50: Ratio of Pay, CEO to Worker
Online salary database PayScale.com ran the numbers on median pay of all workers at each company in the Fortune 50 list then compared that pay number to the annual CEO pay at each company. While Warren Buffet takes home a humble 10 times what his average employee earns, other CEOs' incomes are hundreds or thousands of times higher than the typical worker they employ. Even companies operating in the red have CEO-to-worker pay ratios that might make you scratch your head.
We put some of the highlights of this CEO income analysis into an infographic so we could visually represent some of the staggering pay ratios of CEOs to workers. See full infographic.
See the methodology for the "CEO Pay Put into Perspective" infographic and PayScale's full Fortune 50 ratio of CEO-to-worker pay ratio analysis.
Fortune
50
Rank |
Company |
Company
Annual
Profits |
CEO |
# of
Employees |
CEO's
Annual Cash Compensation |
Median Annual Pay for Typical Employee |
CEO Pay to Typical Employee Ratio |
| 22 |
UnitedHealth Group |
$4.634B |
Stephen J. Hemsley |
80,000 |
$101.965M |
$58,700 |
1737:1 |
| 1 |
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc |
$16.389B |
Michael T. Duke |
2,100,000 |
$16.27M |
$22,700 |
717:1 |
| 16 |
Verizon Communications, Inc. |
$2.549B |
Ivan G. Seidenberg |
194,400 |
$36.75M |
$60,000 |
613:1 |
| 15 |
McKesson Corp. |
$1.263B |
John H. Hammergren |
32,500 |
$32.46M |
$60,500 |
537:1 |
| 21 |
CVS Caremark Corporation |
$3.427B |
Thomas M. Ryan |
200,000 |
$16.56M |
$36,300 |
456:1 |
| 34 |
Medco Health Solutions, L.L.C. |
$1.4273B |
David B. Snow Jr. |
23,000 |
$22.19M |
$51,500 |
431:1 |
| 18 |
International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. |
$14.833B |
Samuel J. Palmisano |
426,571 |
$30.32M |
$86,800 |
349:1 |
| 12 |
AT&T Inc. |
$19.864B |
Randall L. Stephenson |
294,600 |
$21.28M |
$62,200 |
342:1 |
| 44 |
United Technologies Corporation |
$4.373B |
Louis R. Chênevert |
208,200 |
$23.97M |
$73,500 |
326:1 |
| 43 |
PepsiCo Inc |
$6.32B |
Indra K. Nooyi |
294,000 |
$19.63M |
$61,000 |
322:1 |
| 27 |
AmerisourceBergen Corp. |
$636.7M |
R. David Yost |
10,000 |
$16.37M |
$53,100 |
308:1 |
| 49 |
Kraft Foods, Inc. |
$4.114B |
Irene B. Rosenfeld |
127,000 |
$16.71M |
$55,200 |
303:1 |
| 33 |
Target Corporation |
$2.92B |
Gregg W. Steinhafel |
355,000 |
$8.09M |
$29,500 |
274:1 |
| 13 |
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPMCC) |
$17.37B |
James Dimon |
250,095 |
$12.56M |
$51,600 |
243:1 |
| 30 |
The Home Depot Inc. |
$3.338B |
Francis S. Blake |
321,000 |
$6.36M |
$29,100 |
219:1 |
| 40 |
Johnson & Johnson |
$13.334B |
William C. Weldon |
114,000 |
$18.36M |
$84,900 |
216:1 |
| 50 |
Lowe's Home Improvement Inc. |
$2.01B |
Robert A. Niblock |
234,000 |
$6.1M |
$29,200 |
209:1 |
| 25 |
The Kroger Company |
$1.1163B |
David B. Dillon |
338,000 |
$5.03M |
$25,800 |
195:1 |
| 47 |
Best Buy |
$1.317B |
Brian J. Dunn |
180,000 |
$4.31M |
$23,900 |
180:1 |
| 23 |
Wells Fargo Bank |
$12.362B |
John G. Stumpf |
280,000 |
$6.57M |
$42,600 |
154:1 |
| 42 |
WellPoint, Inc. |
$2.8871B |
Angela F. Braly |
42,000 |
$9.49M |
$64,200 |
148:1 |
| 9 |
Bank of America Corp. (BOFA) |
-$2.238B |
Brian T. Moynihan |
288,000 |
$6.45M |
$44,900 |
144:1 |
| 36 |
Boeing Company, The |
$3.307B |
W. James McNerney Jr. |
164,495 |
$10.94M |
$76,800 |
142:1 |
| 45 |
Dow Chemical Co |
$2.31B |
Andrew N. Liveris |
49,505 |
$10.41M |
$77,100 |
135:1 |
| 6 |
General Electric (GE) Energy |
$11.644B |
Jeffrey R. Immelt |
82,000 |
$9.62M |
$75,000 |
128:1 |
| 4 |
ConocoPhillips Company |
$324M |
James J. Mulva |
30,000 |
$8.07M |
$89,400 |
126:1 |
| 24 |
Valero Energy Corp |
$11.358B |
William R. Klesse |
21,000 |
$11.26M |
$64,300 |
126:1 |
| 17 |
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) |
$7.786B |
Robert H. Benmosche |
96,000 |
$7.02M |
$63,100 |
111:1 |
| 2 |
ExxonMobil Corporation |
$30.46B |
Rex W. Tillerson |
83,600 |
$9.73M |
$90,900 |
107:1 |
| 19 |
Cardinal Health, Inc. |
$642.2M |
George S. Barrett |
30,000 |
$5.6M |
$55,400 |
101:1 |
| 28 |
Costco Wholesale company |
$1.303B |
James D. Sinegal |
147,000 |
$4.62M |
$46,200 |
100:1 |
| 32 |
Walgreen Co. |
$2.091B |
Gregory D. Wasson |
244,000 |
$2.99M |
$30,700 |
97:1 |
| 35 |
Apple Computer, Inc |
$14.013B |
Timothy D. Cook |
49,400 |
$5.86M |
$61,200 |
96:1 |
| 26 |
Procter & Gamble Co |
$12.736B |
Robert A. McDonald |
127,000 |
$6.76M |
$72,700 |
93:1 |
| 39 |
Archer Daniels Midland Company |
$1.93B |
Patricia A. Woertz |
29,300 |
$4.32M |
$53,600 |
81:1 |
| 20 |
Freddie Mac |
-$14.025B |
Charles E. Haldeman Jr. |
5,300 |
$5.24M |
$80,000 |
66:1 |
| 48 |
United Parcel Service (UPS), Inc. |
$3.488B |
D. Scott Davis |
400,600 |
$3.27M |
$50,600 |
65:1 |
| 3 |
Chevron Corporation |
$19.024B |
John S. Watson |
62,000 |
$5.5M |
$90,000 |
61:1 |
| 10 |
Ford Motor Company |
$6.561B |
Alan R. Mulally |
164,000 |
$3.34M |
$63,200 |
53:1 |
| 5 |
Fannie Mae Corporation |
-$14.014B |
Michael J. Williams |
7,300 |
$4.84M |
$92,800 |
52:1 |
| 29 |
Marathon Oil Corporation |
$2.568B |
Clarence P. Cazalot Jr. |
29,524 |
$4.16M |
$81,300 |
51:1 |
| 46 |
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) |
$2.79B |
Steven A. Kandarian |
66,000 |
$2.69M |
$57,100 |
47:1 |
| 11 |
Hewlett-Packard Company |
$8.257B |
Léo Apotheker |
324,600 |
$4.25M |
$76,900 |
47:1 |
| 31 |
Pfizer, Inc. |
$8.761B |
Ian C. Read |
110,600 |
$3.6M |
$91,100 |
47:1 |
| 8 |
General Motors Corporation |
$6.172B |
Daniel F. Akerson |
209,000 |
$1.7M |
$76,300 |
22:1 |
| 14 |
Citigroup, Inc. |
$10.602B |
Vikram S. Pandit |
260,000 |
$1.35M |
$77,800 |
17:1 |
| 38 |
Microsoft Corp |
$2.635B |
Steven A. Ballmer |
90,000 |
$.960M |
$104,000 |
13:1 |
| 41 |
Dell, Inc. |
$18.76B |
Michael S. Dell |
103,300 |
$1.35M |
$76,300 |
13:1 |
| 7 |
Berkshire Hathaway Inc |
$12.967B |
Warren E. Buffett |
260,519 |
$.450M |
$47,000 |
10:1 |
| 37 |
State Farm Insurance Cos. |
$1.7628B |
Edward B. Rust Jr. |
68,000 |
Unavailable |
$36,000 |
Unavailable |
Notes
Each CEO's Annual Cash Compensation is from the Forbes list of top 500 paid CEOs and includes the following: salary and cash bonuses; other compensation, such as vested stock grants; and stock gains, the value realized by exercised stock options. It does not include stock options that have not been exercised.
This list covers the top 50 Fortune 500 companies that are publicly traded and have greater than 5,000 employees.
See full methodology for PayScale's CEO-to-worker pay ratio analysis.
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