CEO Pay Ratio Percentile Lookup
Free tool to see where any company's CEO-to-worker pay ratio ranks among 2,000+ U.S. public companies. Data from SEC EDGAR proxy filings.
Answer first
Opendoor Technologies Inc. leads both boards this year; Flex Ltd. shows why a high ratio is not a large package.
According to 1,423 complete FY2025 DEF 14A filings, Flex Ltd. ranks #3 on pay ratio (3,431:1) and #34 on CEO total ($44.4M) because median worker pay is $12,939. This lookup ranks the multiple you enter against that same unbiased pool - it does not convert a percentile into a compensation verdict.
- Ratio board #1
- Opendoor Technologies Inc.
- 7,581:1 · dollar #1
- Split example
- Flex Ltd.
- Ratio #3 · dollars #34
- Pool size
- 1,423
- Complete FY2025 filings
Distribution snapshot
Two views of the same SEC DEF 14A pool through FY2025 - percentile floors and the share at or above the large-cap norm (150:1).
Pay-ratio percentiles · all valid filings through FY2025
Context for ratio bands
- Below 50:1 - Small/mid-cap, professional services, or companies with mostly salaried full-time U.S. workforce.
- 50–150:1 - Typical mid-cap range. Most S&P 500 industrials cluster here.
- 150–500:1 - Large-cap norm. Tech CEOs with heavy stock awards are common.
- 500–1,500:1 - Retail and food service giants where the median worker is part-time hourly.
- 1,500:1+ - Outlier. Often driven by one-time mega-grants or workforce composition (gig-platform companies).
Why workforce composition matters
The pay ratio is sensitive to who counts as "median employee." A retailer with 200,000 part-time hourly workers will have a much lower median than a software firm with 5,000 full-time engineers. SEC permits companies to use Consistently Applied Compensation Measure (CACM) and demographic sampling, methodology details appear in proxy footnotes. Read more about how the ratio is calculated.
Source & methodology
Pay ratio data from SEC EDGAR DEF 14A proxy filings. Required disclosure under Dodd-Frank Section 953(b), effective for fiscal years beginning on or after January 1, 2017. Each company self-reports the ratio in its annual proxy statement. PlainCEOPay aggregates these across 1,423 U.S. issuers.
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 executive compensation data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our Editorial & Corrections Policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or Report a correction. Data current as of August 2026.