This CEO makes 900 times more than company's typical employee
If there’s one thing that gets people more upset than high CEO pay, it’s when companies pay CEOs absurdly more than rank-and-file employees. Many big companies pay their CEOs 100 or even 300 times more than their typical workers. But the Wall Street Journal reports that one firm based in Ohio paid its CEO a whopping 935 times more than its median worker last year.
The company in question is Marathon Petroleum Corp., the second-largest oil refiner in the U.S., which paid CEO Gary Heminger $19.7 million last year. That is obviously an awful lot of money. Still, Heminger wasn’t even in the top 100 highest-paid CEOs in a recent list published by the AFL-CIO.
How, then, did Marathon Petroleum wind up with what the Journal called “one of the biggest contrasts” in CEO-to-worker pay? The landmark Dodd-Frank requires that public companies disclose their CEO-to-median-employee pay ratio to the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a firm’s ratio can be enormous if the CEO makes a fortune, the workers are paid a pittance, or both.
Marathon Petroleum’s ratio appears to extraordinarily high because many employees are part-timers at its Speedway gas station and convenience stores. Overall, median pay for Marathon workers appears to be about $21,000 per year, or more than 900 times less the company’s CEO. But if you exclude the Speedway workers, median pay at Marathon goes up to nearly $126,000 per year, according to the Journal, for a CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 156:1.
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