As public companies become required to disclose the pay ratio of their CEOs and median employees for the first time this year, Equilar conducted an anonymous survey of 356 public companies to identify the CEO pay ratio they plan to report in their 2018 proxy statements.
To complete this analysis, Equilar split companies by employee size into five equal groups.
Here are five things to know about the survey.
1. The median CEO pay ratio across all 356 companies in the survey was 140:1.
2. Median employee compensation for all included companies was $60,000.
3. The median CEO pay ratio was larger in direct correlation to company revenue, with a total of 47:1 for companies below $1 billion in revenue and 263:1 for companies above $15 billion in revenue.
4. Companies with the largest number of employees had the biggest ratio (318:1) and the smallest median employee compensation ($46,000).
5. The smallest companies in the survey, which employ fewer than 2,310 people, had the lowest ratio (45:1) and highest median pay ($85,580).