CEO Pay Ratio Trends 2022-2024
Three-year analysis of how the median CEO-to-worker pay ratio shifted across fiscal years 2022-2024, drawn from SEC DEF 14A filings.
Research
PlainCEOPay is built on the SEC executive_pay + industry_benchmarks tables. The live figures on this portal cover reported CEO total compensation, median employee pay, and the disclosed pay ratio; interpretive articles identify their limits where the dataset does not support a claim.
Original analysis
Equity vs Cash Compensation Mix in CEO Pay
A transparent account of the FY 2024 total-compensation and pay-ratio figures we can show, and why the dataset cannot support an equity-versus-cash split.
Say-on-Pay Data Availability
What a defensible say-on-pay analysis would require, and why PlainCEOPay does not currently publish vote-result statistics.
Live data products
Company Compensation Profiles
Per-company summaries of reported CEO total compensation, median employee pay, and the CEO-to-worker ratio across the companies in the dataset.
Pay Rankings
Companies ranked by CEO total compensation and CEO-to-worker pay ratio, derived from the live pay_rankings table.
Industry Benchmarks
Industry-level compensation aggregates from the industry_benchmarks table, median CEO pay, average pay ratio, percentile spreads, and per-industry company counts.
Methodology
How SEC EDGAR DEF 14A proxy filings are ingested into PlainCEOPay, coverage, refresh cadence, and the limits of CEO-pay-ratio reporting.
Every figure on PlainCEOPay is rendered directly from SEC EDGAR executive compensation filings, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on SEC EDGAR filings, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.