Publicly held corporations now must disclose their median employee compensation. Those numbers gave us an idea for a new analytical approach to an age-old struggle. Who benefits the most when a company is successful: its shareholders or its employees? Capital or labor? It is a question that speaks to some of the oldest debates in… Continue reading Is Capital or Labor Winning at Your Favorite Company?
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At Google’s Parent Alphabet, Median Pay Nears $200,000
Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG 1.97% said its workers earned a median pay package of more than $197,000 last year, the fourth-highest pay among the hundreds of companies in the S&P 500 index that have disclosed those figures. Alphabet’s median pay was about 18% lower than at rival internet giant Facebook Inc., where employees earned a median salary of $240,000. The relatively high pay at two of the… Continue reading At Google’s Parent Alphabet, Median Pay Nears $200,000
At Walmart, the CEO Makes 1,188 Times as Much as the Median Worker
Walmart Inc. WMT -0.50% paid its median worker $19,177 last year, while Chief Executive Doug McMillon earned $22.8 million, according to a securities filing Friday. That places the retailer 10th among S&P 500 companies with the widest gap in pay between the CEO and a typical worker, based on an analysis of more than 330 firms that have disclosed the… Continue reading At Walmart, the CEO Makes 1,188 Times as Much as the Median Worker
See How Your Salary Compares
Over 1,000 companies, including Amazon, JPMorgan and Walmart, have disclosed how they compensate workers. Find out where your pay stands. For the second year, most publicly traded U.S. companies are disclosing how much a typical employee makes. Compare yourself with the median employee at particular companies or across an entire sector, using data from MyLogIQ.