FY2025 CEO pay-ratio key findings
Counts from PlainCEOPay's FY2025 complete DEF 14A cohort (1,423 of 1,557 filings that year). Median 87:1. Registry facts only, not compensation advice, and CEO names are not inferred.
Answer first
The median reported CEO pay package in this FY2025 cohort is 87:1 the median worker's pay.
640 of 1,423 complete filings (45%) report at least 100:1. The mean is 184:1 because a right tail of stock-award years pulls it above the median. According to SEC EDGAR DEF 14A disclosures compiled here.
- Median ratio
- 87:1
- Share ≥100:1
- 45%
- Complete FY2025 rows
- 1,423
- Catalog CIKs
- 2,456
Source: SEC EDGAR proxy statements (DEF 14A) · FY2025 complete cohort. See methodology.
Key findings
Standalone, citable statements from this FY2025 complete cohort. Reuse with attribution to PlainCEOPay.
- 1,423 of 1,557 FY2025 DEF 14A rows in this registry are complete (CEO total compensation, median employee pay, and pay ratio all greater than zero). The catalog holds 2,456 distinct CIKs across FY2021–2025. Completeness is a filter, not a count of all public companies.
- 87:1 is the median reported CEO-to-median-worker pay ratio in that FY2025 complete cohort (1,423 rows). Median is the middle filing, not a typical worker's experience at any one company.
- 184:1 is the mean of the same FY2025 complete cohort. The mean sits well above the 87:1 median because a right tail of stock-award years pulls it; do not treat the mean as a typical package.
- 640 of 1,423 (45%) of complete FY2025 filings report a ratio of at least 100:1. 189 (13.3%) report at least 300:1. These are filing counts, not a judgment about whether any package is 'too high.'
- 7,581:1 is the highest reported ratio in the FY2025 complete cohort: Opendoor Technologies Inc. (OPEN), $741.1M reported CEO total compensation against $97,758 median employee pay. That is the DEF 14A arithmetic, not take-home pay and not an overpaid-CEO ranking.
- $16.3B is the sum of reported CEO total compensation across the 1,423 complete FY2025 rows. Totals mix cash, stock awards, and other DEF 14A components; they are not cash paid in the year.
- 767:1 is the highest SIC-2 median ratio among 62 FY2025 industry benchmarks: General Merchandise Stores (SIC 53) on 8 companies. That is a small-n median, not a claim that this industry's workforce is paid less.
- 95:1 is the median ratio for Business Services (SIC 73), the largest FY2025 industry cohort in this registry (189 companies). A large-n median is a more stable industry snapshot than a handful of filers.
How the FY2025 ratios sit
Bucket counts of the 1,423 complete FY2025 rows. The gauge is the share at 100:1 or higher, the same denominator as the Key Findings.
Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR DEF 14A pay-ratio disclosures (Dodd-Frank §953(b)) · 2025 Complete-row filter: CEO total compensation, median employee pay, and pay ratio all greater than zero in the latest fiscal year. Mean and median are separate statistics. Industry medians with small n are labeled.
How to read these numbers
Every ratio here is one company's FY2025 DEF 14A disclosure: reported CEO total compensation divided by reported median employee compensation. Stock awards can dominate the CEO figure in a single year. This page does not infer CEO names (the current extract leaves that field empty) and does not say whether any package is deserved. Download the CSV or open an industry benchmark.
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's Key Findings are aggregates over executive_pay for fiscal_year 2025 with ceo_total_comp, median_employee_pay, and pay_ratio all greater than zero. Catalog CIK count and FY2025 industry medians are labeled as separate populations. CEO names are not inferred. See our Editorial & Corrections Policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or Report a correction. Data current as of SEC EDGAR DEF 14A · FY2025 complete cohort.