How Companies Large and Small Pay Their Workers
By: Wall Street Journal
August 1, 2018
A WSJ analysis of 1,111 companies finds size matters for pay — but other factors matter more.
As U.S. companies disclose for the first time how much typical employees make, two factors are proving pivotal: the size of a company’s workforce and the economic sector in which it operates.
Big Picture
Public companies tend to pay in the high five figures.
Median pay lies between about $44,000 and $95,000 for about half of the 1,111 companies in the S&P 1,500 index that have disclosed median employee pay.
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