Table 2

Growth of relative CEO and college wages, 1979–2010

Ratio Log ratio
 CEO compensation to: College to:  CEO compensation to: College 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 wage earners
1979 1.18 3.16 1.40 0.164 1.151 0.338
1989 1.14 2.55 1.57 0.128 0.936 0.454
1993 1.56 2.95 1.63 0.443 1.083 0.488
2000 2.90 7.53 1.75 1.063 2.019 0.557
2007 1.49 4.23 1.76 0.396 1.442 0.568
2010 2.06 4.70 1.77 0.725 1.548 0.574
Change
1979–2007 0.31 1.07 0.36 0.23 0.29 0.23
1979–2010 0.89 1.54 0.37 0.56 0.40 0.24
1989–2010 0.93 2.15 0.20 0.60 0.61 0.12

Source: Authors' analysis of Kaplan (2012b) and Mishel et al. (2012, Table 4.8)

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