It takes the average McDonald’s worker seven months to earn what its CEO makes in just a single hour. While executives at many top companies make top dollar, the typical employee at corporations like McDonald’s, Gap, Target, and Walmart still earns minimum wage, or something barely above it. The disparity is alarming. CEOs of American companies now earn some 270 times what the average worker makes.
via How many months it takes an average worker to earn what the CEO makes in an hour – Quartz.
