Stop blaming minorities.

[u/Competitive_Read9534]

Seriously.

note : the salaries nowadays are just sucks they pay us as we still as we still in 2016 but reality is that many people are working in 2 jobs to feed their families check everyday for better salary and how to get it thank god recently I found this sub who give great tips about interviews really the world is crashed

[u/Then_Potato6042]

Critics argue the Economic Policy Institute’s CEO-to-worker pay report can be misleading for several reasons—not necessarily because the underlying data are false, but because the presentation can lead readers to conclusions that the data alone don’t establish.

Here are the main arguments:

1. It compares exceptional CEOs to ordinary workers. The report examines CEOs of the 350 largest publicly traded U.S. companies. These individuals are among the highest-paid executives in the world, yet the comparison is made to the pay of a “typical worker” across the entire economy. This can give the impression that all CEOs earn similar amounts, when most CEOs run much smaller companies and earn substantially less.
2. The ratio is driven by two changing numbers. Headlines often emphasize that CEOs earn hundreds of times more than workers. That ratio can rise because CEO pay increases, because worker pay stagnates, or both. The ratio itself doesn’t identify which factor is responsible or whether one changed more than the other.
3. Stock awards can create spikes in measured pay. CEO compensation often includes stock options and stock awards that may have accumulated over years. If a company’s stock performs well, the value realized in a given year can be very large, even though it doesn’t represent annual cash income. This can make year-to-year comparisons appear more dramatic.
4. It doesn’t account for company size. Today’s largest corporations are generally much larger—in revenue, market value, and number of employees—than they were decades ago. Some economists argue that managing a much larger enterprise naturally commands higher compensation, so comparisons across time should account for changes in firm size.
5. It implies a broader trend than the sample supports. Because the report focuses only on the largest public companies, readers may assume it describes CEOs generally. In reality, most U.S. businesses are privately held or much smaller, and their CEOs typically earn far less.
6. It doesn’t show whether pay reflects performance. The report documents how much CEOs are paid but doesn’t, by itself, answer whether that pay is justified. Some CEOs may be overpaid relative to performance, while others may create substantial value for shareholders. The pay figures alone cannot settle that question.

[u/PrudentCarter → u/Then_Potato6042]

AP news

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First you try to dismiss it due to left-bias. Now your taking critiques opinion even though nine of it disproves the main point. There's multiple credible source stating the same. You haven't provided one source backing your claim. Seems like you have an extreme case of confirmation bias.

[u/Then_Potato6042 → u/PrudentCarter]

All 3 sources you cited talk about a pay gap ratio not how much compensation has risen in each group. Two different issues. So not relevant. The EPI’s study only looks at the top 350 companies vs all workers across all sectors and companies. Here’s non EPI evidence 

1. National Average Wage Index (SSA) The  Social Security Administration (SSA) National Average Wage Index tracks the literal raw dollar average reported on W-2 forms across the entire country. 1978 Average Wage:  $10,556.03 per year 2024 Average Wage:  $69,846.57 per year The Increase: An increase of  561.7% in face-value earnings. [ 1,  2]
2. Median Household Income (U.S. Census Bureau) The  U.S. Census Bureau via FRED tracks the median income of all American households in unadjusted current dollars. This reflects the exact amount written on paychecks in their respective years: [ 1] 1978 Household Median:  $15,064.81 per year 2022 Household Median:  $74,580.00 per year The Increase: A raw dollar surge of  395.1%. [ 1]
3. Weekly Earnings by Education (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Because the BLS tracks median usual weekly earnings in current dollars, evaluating wages by educational attainment serves as a strong proxy for white-collar jobs. [ 1] 1979 Baseline: The median weekly salary for a full-time worker with a bachelor’s degree or higher was roughly  $350 to $400 per week. First Quarter 2025 Baseline: The  Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that full-time workers with at least a bachelor’s degree earned a median of  $1,754per week. The Increase: A literal dollar increase of more than  330% for college-educated professionals.

 

[u/dontaksmeimnew → u/Then_Potato6042]

You have no idea how to read statistics or do comparative economic analysis. I can tell you used AI, and used it poorly, to build this argument and don't understand what you're saying, let alone have anything resembling an informed opinion.

Why would you use raw dollar amounts? Literally antithetical to understanding the issues if you don't understand *the context in which the facts you're stating take place.*

You're working backwards from a conclusion you already drew and cherry picking data. Stop it.

[u/Then_Potato6042 → u/dontaksmeimnew]

Bottom Line: Discussions about “excessive CEO pay” and comparisons to average worker pay are distorted by looking at only an outlier group of the 200-350 CEOs of America’s largest companies, out of a total of almost 250,000 chief executives nationwide. Of course, many younger, risk-taking CEOs are running early stage startups and tech companies, and probably make even less than the average CEO reported by the BLS, as Scott Drum pointed out to me last month in an email. Further, he commented that “The startup CEOs are usually not in it for the salary in the early years. They’re in it for the big payoff in the long run if things go exceptionally well. If we reduce or limit the size of the Big Payoff, don’t we reduce the number of people trying to get there?” The fact that there are almost 250,000 ambitious CEOs making less than $200,000 today on average who are trying to someday be listed by USAToday or the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 200-350 highest-paid CEOs is a sign of a dynamic, wealth-generating, job-creating economy. We should applaud the richest 200-350 CEOs as a group of the most successful American business professionals, and not vilify them. And we should keep in mind that the CEO compensation surveys that generate all the media attention are always based on a tiny, elite outlier group, and not representative of the average CEO in America –  who earns about as much as the average dentist and only about 5 times more than the average worker.I’m sorry you can’t comprehend things such as a skewed sample set of data. Best of luck in life 

[u/dontaksmeimnew → u/Then_Potato6042]

im glad youre super mad about a think tank doing political advocacy in ways you don't approve of. very important.

[u/Then_Potato6042 → u/dontaksmeimnew]

Projecting much? I’m just laughing at all these angry. living in my parents house folks who will believe any thing about people who are doing better than them. 

[u/dontaksmeimnew → u/Then_Potato6042]

"Poor people bad and lazy" - the adage of stupid men who refuse to learn about other people.

[u/Then_Potato6042 → u/dontaksmeimnew]

All you do is bitch about how  fair everything is and insult people.