This is the seventh annual “The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs” report published by As You Sow. During this time, we have noted that many institutions have increased their opposition to excessive CEO pay, but the change has been slow.
The pandemic that defined the year 2020, as The Guardian put it, “sharpen[ed] America’s already stark economic inequalities.” Workers with lower pay lost their jobs while the world’s executives made even more money. Unemployment is now above 20 percent for the lowest paid workers. Worker wages currently represent a lower share of the U.S. economy than almost any time since the 1940s when the Federal Reserve began collecting the data.
Who are the most overpaid CEOs?