Growth of relative CEO compensation and college wages, 1979–2014

Ratio Log ratio
CEO compensation to: College wages to: CEO compensation to: College wages to:
Top 0.1% households Top 0.1% wage earners High school hourly wages Top 0.1% households Top 0.1% wage earners High school hourly wages
1979 1.18 3.26 1.40 0.162 1.182 0.338
1989 1.14 2.63 1.57 0.127 0.966 0.454
1993 1.55 3.05 1.63 0.441 1.114 0.488
2000 2.89 7.76 1.75 1.062 2.049 0.557
2007 1.48 4.36 1.76 0.395 1.472 0.568
2010 2.03 4.85 1.77 0.710 1.578 0.574
2013 2.54 5.84 1.82 0.932 1.764 0.598
2014 2.34 5.61 1.80 0.852 1.724 0.585
Change
1979–2007 0.31 1.10 0.36 0.23 0.29 0.23
1979–2014 1.17 2.35 0.39 0.69 0.54 0.25
1989–2014 1.21 2.98 0.22 0.72 0.76 0.13

Source: Authors' analysis of Mishel and Kimball 2015 and Piketty and Saez 2014.

Income inequality from Piketty and Saez, “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), 2003, 1-39. Updated data for this series and other countries, is available at the Top Income Database. Updated 2016.

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