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CEO to Worker Pay Ratios for S&P 500 Companies (mander.xyz)

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[–] BeatTakeshi 10 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Could someone explain Airbnb? Everyone has the same salary?

[–] enbyecho 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Brian Chesky, the CEO, gets an annual bonus of around the average of all employees salary. This is completely irrelevant as he is a co-founder and owns 10.6% of the company or around 67 million shares. So at the most recent share price that's $9.17 billion, at least on paper.

Such arrangements are common among tech companies.

[–] Acters 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Very likely the pay comes in different streams than the actual salary

[–] MutilationWave 10 points 4 days ago

Yes I don't think this image accounts for the different ways the rich are paid.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch 5 points 3 days ago

I know it's weird, because they have a lot of call center employees that handle various situations. Maybe those aren't counted in the graphic for some reason, because there's no way a call center employee is making close a quarter million dollars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Let's talk about how the 'negligible' difference in pay of approximately 50k is more than a highly qualified teacher would make with ten years of experience in my state.

[–] Scolding7300 0 points 4 days ago

Maybe it's rounded down