Personal Services CEO pay ratio
SEC EDGAR DEF 14A benchmarks for SIC 72. Highest in-industry ratio on this page: H&r Block Inc at 420:1.
- Median pay ratio
- 168:1
- Average pay ratio
- 227:1
- Median CEO pay
- $9.7M
- Companies tracked
- 3
Data updated August 2026
Answer first
Personal Services sits at #15 of 63 SIC-2 industries by median CEO-to-worker pay ratio and #19 of 63 by median CEO pay - ratio rank is not dollar rank (3 FY2024 filers, median 168:1 / $9.7M).
Placement uses the same latest-fiscal-year-per-SIC medians as the Industries directory. Median-ratio rank #15 of 63 is not median-CEO-pay rank #19 of 63. Figures come from Section 953(b) Dodd-Frank DEF 14A disclosures - not estimates. Inside this SIC, H&r Block Inc currently leads the in-page company list at 420:1.
- Median ratio
- 168:1
- #15 of 63 SIC-2 industries
- Median CEO pay
- $9.7M
- #19 of 63 by median dollars
- Filers
- 3
- FY2024 SIC 72
Personal Services vs all SIC-2 industries
Unique-issuer pay ratios in this SIC as bars , plus live COUNT placement #15 of 63 industries by median CEO-to-worker pay ratio (78th percentile) . Corpus complete-filing median is 87:1; this industry's median is 168:1.
Filing-year trail · SIC 72
Same SIC-2 industry_benchmarks extract across FY2021–2024: median CEO-to-worker pay ratio, median CEO dollars, and filer count per fiscal year. Year-over-year deltas compare adjacent filing years only; they are not inflation-adjusted and do not invent missing years.
- Latest median ratio
- 168:1
- FY2024
- vs prior FY
- +8:1
- from FY2023 160:1
- Median CEO $ YoY
- +8.9%
- $9.7M latest
- Filer count YoY
- -2
- 3 in FY2024
| FY | Median ratio | Δ ratio | Median CEO pay | Δ pay | Filers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 99:1 | - | $7.6M | - | 5 |
| 2022 | 146:1 | +47:1 | $8.8M | +16% | 5 |
| 2023 | 160:1 | +14:1 | $8.9M | +0.6% | 5 |
| 2024 | 168:1 | +8:1 | $9.7M | +8.9% | 3 |
Source: PlainCEOPay industry_benchmarks for SIC 72 (Personal Services), FY2021–2024. Each row is one fiscal-year cohort median, not a company-level panel.
Thin industry filer count
Personal Services in the higher-ratio third
3 FY2024 DEF 14A filers put Personal Services in the lightest third of SIC-2 volumes. Personal Services (SIC 72) posts a higher-third median CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 168:1 across 3 FY2024 SEC filers.
Inside this hotter-ratio band, the 25th percentile CEO earned $7.0M while the 75th earned $10.3M - firm size and equity packages still drive wide spreads. When the average (227:1) and median (168:1) stay close, pay practices look more uniform across the sector.
Below: each of the 6 Personal Services companies PlainCEOPay tracks in this SIC , with CEO total compensation, median worker pay, and pay ratios. Company pages compare each filing to this industry median. Figures are from SEC EDGAR filings - not estimates.
According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database, PlainCEOPay's August 2026 refresh processed 2,456 public companies with 1,423 complete FY2025 DEF 14A proxy filings (fiscal years 2021 through 2025) under Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K. See our methodology for parsing rules.
Companies in Personal Services (6 )
| # | Company | CEO Pay | Median Worker | Pay Ratio | FY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ww International, Inc. Latest filing FY2023 SEC EDGAR DEF 14A, CIK 105319 | $8.9M | $14K | 628:1 | 2023 |
| 2 | H&r Block Inc SEC EDGAR DEF 14A, CIK 12659 | $11.0M | $26K | 420:1 | 2024 |
| 3 | Carriage Services Inc SEC EDGAR DEF 14A, CIK 1016281 | $3.9M | $27K | 143:1 | 2025 |
| 4 | Unifirst Corp Latest filing FY2023 SEC EDGAR DEF 14A, CIK 717954 | $3.9M | $37K | 104:1 | 2023 |
| 5 | Yelp Inc SEC EDGAR DEF 14A, CIK 1345016 | $10.3M | $99K | 103:1 | 2025 |
| 6 | Regis Corp Latest filing FY2021 SEC EDGAR DEF 14A, CIK 716643 | - | - | 69:1 | 2021 |
Latest filing: 3 of the 6 issuers above have no FY2024 filing on file, so their row shows their newest earlier year (see the FY column). They are ranked here beside FY2024 filers and each carries the marker; the Personal Services benchmark and the lead figures on this page use FY2024 filers only.
3 FY2024 DEF 14A filers put Personal Services in the lightest third of SIC-2 volumes. Open H&r Block Inc for the in-SIC filing next to this median, or compare every SIC on the Industries directory.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.