Executive Paywatch 2025 is Now Online!

Guess how much more the nation’s top CEOs made compared to their workers last year. Twenty times more? Fifty times more? One hundred times more?

Nope, the average S&P 500 CEO made 285 times what the median worker made in 2024—a whopping $18.9 million each in total compensation on average. Check out the AFL-CIO’s annual Executive Paywatch report to see how much your CEO took home last year.

As if this vast inequality wasn’t bad enough—at a time when many workers are struggling to pay our bills, President Trump just handed America’s CEOs another massive tax break. And we all know how Trump is paying for this gift to billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg: by making gigantic cuts to Medicaid, food assistance and other services we need—cuts that will slash hundreds of thousands of jobs in our communities.

The CEOs listed in our Executive Paywatch report will be able to skip out on paying a combined $738 million in income taxes, thanks to the big, ugly budget reconciliation bill. Read more here!