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.