Americans overwhelmingly say CEOs are overpaid

Women (81%) are more likely than men (75%) to think that CEOs are overpaid. Overall, four in five workers across the United States say CEOs make too much money, while 70% say the CEO of their own company couldn’t do their job for an entire week. FlexJobs notes that CEO compensation is now nearly 200 times that of the average employee. Nearly 75% of workers also say they or someone they know has experienced workplace bias or discrimination. “The gap is widening between leadership direction and employee needs, like equitable pay, job flexibility, and representation,” FlexJobs Manager Toni Frana says. “Instead, workers are met with actions like mass layoffs and restrictive return-to-office mandates.”