The Advisors' Blog

– Broc Romanek

Although pay ratio didn’t seem to initially capture the imagination of journalists, there has been a wave of local reporting about the pay ratios at specific companies over the past week. Here’s some of the articles about how pay levels – particularly pay ratios – look this year, based on this season’s proxy statements (Mark, Barbara & I are quoted in the first piece):

1. SF Chronicle’s “Yes, median pay at Facebook really is about $240,000 a year”
2. Time.com’s “This CEO Makes 900 Times More Than His Typical Employee”
3. Kansas City Star’s “How many years would you have to work to earn one year of your CEO’s pay? 63? 96?”
4. Chicago Tribune’s “The boss makes how much? Illinois companies reveal CEO-to-worker pay ratio”
5. Boston Business Journal’s “At TJ Maxx parent, the CEO’s pay was 1,500 times higher than the median employee’s”
6. Washington Post’s “Looking for a bigger salary? These are the companies with the highest median pay”
7. Milwaukee BizTimes’ “CEO pay ratio rule provides new view of executive compensation”
8. Bloomberg’s “CEO-to-Worker Pay Reports Show Wildly Divergent Ratios”
9. Financial Times’ “Pay Ratios: Apple, Pears & Bananas”
10. Bloomberg’s “First Data CEO Pay Ratio is 2,028 Times the Median Worker’s”
11. WSJ’s “Does Verizon Really Pay the Typical Worker 60% More Than AT&T?”
12. Vox’s “How does a company’s CEO pay compare to its workers’? Now you can find out”
13. Bloomberg’s “Less Is More for Companies Reporting CEO-to-Worker Pay Gap”