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4 sourced facts about corporate executives -- CEO pay, gender and the gap with workers, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.
The basics
In 2020, The Wall Street Journal found the median pay for executives at the 300 biggest U.S. companies was about how much?
Answerabout $13.7 million
That was up from a median of $12.8 million the year before, in 2019.
Source: Wikipedia, citing The Wall Street Journal (2020) en.wikipedia.org
Going deeper
By 2023, what share of Fortune 500 CEOs were women?
Answer10.4%
That was roughly double the 5% share recorded just five years earlier, in 2018.
Source: Wikipedia (2023) en.wikipedia.org
Expert level
In 2018, Tesla's Elon Musk was the highest-paid CEO in the U.S. About how much was his total compensation package that year?
Answerabout $2.3 billion
That package was tied to ambitious performance milestones for Tesla's stock price and operations.
Source: Wikipedia (2018) en.wikipedia.org
In 2012, Oracle's Larry Ellison was the highest-paid CEO in the U.S. About how much did he earn that year?
Answerabout $96.2 million
That same year, the median pay package for the top 200 U.S. executives was a much smaller $15.1 million.
Source: Wikipedia (2012) en.wikipedia.org
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