CEO Total Comp Changes FY2024→FY2025
Same-company year-over-year change in disclosed CEO total compensation from paired DEF 14A filings.
Research
Download the SEC pay-ratio extract cited on this page: ceo-pay-ratios.csv (SEC EDGAR DEF 14A · CC BY 4.0).
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.
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What this research covers
PlainCEOPay research draws live DEF 14A pay-ratio filings across 1,423 complete FY2025 rows (2,456 catalog CIKs; median ratio 87:1), answering one cohort or availability question per study.
- 1,423
- FY2025 complete rows
- 87:1
- median pay ratio
- 2,456
- catalog CIKs
- 4
- published studies
Studies below answer one compensation-registry question each from the live SEC extract; they are descriptive filing summaries, not compensation advice, and CEO names are never inferred.
Original analysis
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.
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.
Source and method. PlainCEOPay is rendered directly from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR Form DEF 14A proxy statements. PlainCEOPay extracts disclosed values and does not estimate a figure that a filing does not report. This page draws directly on SEC EDGAR filings, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our Editorial & Corrections Policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or Report a correction.