>CEO pay at large U.S. corporations remains high and low-wage workers are struggling - with 7.5 million Americans expected to lose Medicaid and 4 million to lose SNAP benefits to offset tax cuts for corporations and the rich under the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”>Low-Wage 20 companies employ 6.7 million people in the United States. Their median worker wages in 2024 ranged from $9,602 (Ross Stores) to $47,607 (MGM Resorts) - compared to an average CEO compensation of over $18 million.>Their CEOs make, on average, nearly 900 times more than their median employees — and their companies often spend billions on stock buybacks, artificially hiking their stock prices (and with it, CEO pay)>Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95,801,676 in 2024. The CEO-worker pay ratio for Starbucks is 6,666 : 1, with the median pay of a Starbucks employee being $14,674.The problem of stagnant wages in the USA is the most important and salient political topic, bar none. Moreso than Iran, trans in bathrooms, ICE etc. This is a problem that has been brewing for decades and will lead to the creation of a slave state if it is not addressed.Everyone should check out the 20-page study in this link. Proposed solutions include:>Adopt “Bad Business Fees.” Basically, these fees would impose significant fines on companies that pay wages so low their workers are forced to depend on public assistance.>Raise the minimum wage: The U.S. Congress has not raised the federal minimum wage for 16 years, the longest period of wage inaction in history.>Tax and restrict stock buybacks: A 1% federal excise tax on the repurchase of corporate stock went into effect in 2023. A Senate bill, the Stock Buyback Accountability Act, would quadruple this excise tax. The Low-Wage 20 companies combined spent $260 billion on stock buybacks between 2019 and 2024.
>>531477515If your company is so poorly run that your employees rely on the government to support them, the government should own part of your company.
>>531477515Absolish welfare. People wouldn't even show up if there was no welfare making up the difference and they'd essentially be forced to raise wages.
>>531477515>>Their CEOs make, on average, nearly 900 times more than their median employeesLiterally the problem
>>531477817Low iq post
People will seethe but the issue is the people and their 401ks. Everyone demands growth in their investments but that comes at the expense of everyone else.
>>531477515Amazon's CEO is tragically underpaid.
>>531477515>Median payMedian pay is totally meaningless without further context, places like ROSS and TJX are staffed by college girls that work 15hrs per week for 7 months out of the year.Amazon probably pays the highest starting wage on that list, they pay almost triple the state minimum wage in my area.......how much are they supposed to pay people to put packages in boxes?Also the numbers for Andy Jassy are completely wrong, he actually made $40m for 2025, that $1.5m is total fiction he is being paid like 200,000+ shares of AMZN per year depending on performance metrics.I hate retards and their retarded pointless numbers that arent even accurate.
>>531477515Raising the minimum wage wont solve this. It will simply cost more to shop at these places. Overturn Dodge vs. Ford and let the companies who want to provide for their wellbeing of their workers over shareholder profits reap the reward. Fuck the Dodge brothers and their cars are auperbly shitty niggermobiles.
>>531477515Tax the CEO directly based on the percentage of employees working under them who are on government assistance. If 88% of Ross employees are collecting, she needs to be taxed 88% of her income.
>>531477515CEO's are often employees. It's the investor class that is creating all these problems. America really is the whore of bablyon where everything including their own childrens future is just another game to gamble on.
>>531477515>Proposed solutions include:These suck, Just Tax their compensation on the Shares they are awarded as performance of their job as income no matter how long they hold them.None of this get paid 30 million in shares, hold them for a year then sell them and only pay 12-15%
>>531477735govt should not own part of the company, companies should be punished for taking advantage of the welfare programs>>531477817the welfare is not the problem, the problem is the corporations that abuse the welfare system to pay their employees below-living wages to juice executive pay and shareholder return>>531477898no, the issue is corporate greed. the increase in executive pay far outpaces the growth of the market and 401k return.>The Low-Wage 20 are using public assistance as corporate welfare.>Corporations can get away with shifting their employees’ basic living costs onto taxpayers, this is a form of corporate welfare. It means taxpayers are subsidizing business models based on poverty wages.>Corporations are not required to disclose the precise number of their employees on public assistance. But the median wage figures publicly held corporations report every year to the SEC provide a useful indicator of corporate reliance on these aid programs. pic rel>Thirteen of the Low-Wage 20 firms reported median pay in 2024 below that year’s $33,576 income limit for a family of three to be eligible for SNAP.These companies also purposely keep hours low to prevent employees from qualifying for health insurance.>Under the Affordable Care Act, companies with 50 or more employees face potential penalties if they do not offer affordable insurance to staff working an average of 30 hours or more per week.>At 15 of the firms, median pay fell below the $35,631 threshold for a family of three to be eligible for Medicaid in most states.I forgot to post the source link like a retard, I will post it next.
>>531477515Is that CEO pay factoring in all forms of compensation?The median pay column is also a little confusing, does that factor in actual hours worked?But yeah the US minimum wage is comically low, that should definitely get a bump. Minimum wages really need to be tied to local CoL though.>Everyone should check out the 20-page study in this link. Nice link
>>531478513>SNAP levels for a THREE PERSON FAMILY>2BR rent is $60kFucking just kill yourself and stop posting meaningless numbersNot everybody is a 3 person family, not everybody pays $60k per year to rent a 2BR apartment, not everybody is a full time employee.I fucking hate Leftists so much its unreal.
Here is the link to the study:https://ips-dc.org/report-americas-20-largest-low-wage-employers-and-the-affordability-crisis/>>531478222Hello sir. Pic related is executive pay as reported by Yahoo Finance. Pay is salary, bonuses etc. not including exercised options. You are correct that the pay reported in OP is likely far less than the value of stock held by those CEOs.>places like ROSS and TJX are staffed by college girls that work 15hrs per week for 7 monthsI would disagree on this point, I agree that some of these places employ youth that don't have real fiscal responsibility, but that does not excuse the practices described in this report. These corporations are clearly exploiting labor and welfare systems for their own benefit. >>531478261Increasing minimum wage is only 1 proposed solution. Minimum wage desperately needs to increased, but you are correct that the other proposed solutions would be more effective. >>531478276correct
>>531477515disgusting.... TIME TO OVERTAX THOSE RICHFAGS AND CLOSE THE LOOPHOLES NOW!
>>531478351CEO's are cunts but they really are just the concierge for the investors
>>531478513Ceos dont own the company. Its all shareholders and they demand a certain return even at the expense of employees
>>531477515So boycott and stop buying at these places, I have and I survive plus any auto parts not from NAPA is chink garbage.
>>531477515What does the CEO wage have to do with the average worker? Is the CEO an average worker? Some people are only capable of doing with worth $7/hr. Because they are retarded. So the retarded can't work? How does that make them better? How does it make you better?You aren't getting rid of welfare. You are shifting it to the employers that actually employ poor people. Why should dollar general pay for welfare but Microsoft not? That's what you are doing. Making Microsoft and Meryl Lynch cover less of the cost of welfare. That's all.
>>531479163Hello again my friend. Consider that the estimate for a 3-person family is based on the smallest "family unit" of 2 adults and 1 child. The wages in the pic of that post were likely chosen because these corporations have thoroughly calculated how little they can pay their employees without exceeding this threshold, thereby ensuring that the poverty wages they are paying will be subsidized by welfare.Note that many of the median pays for these companies falls far below that threshold which would also ensure that 2 or 1 person households would still qualify for SNAP benefits. Nobody "pays $60k per year" for a 2b apartment, that is the estimate of what a family would need to make per year to reasonably afford a 2b apartment, which a 3-person family should be able to afford. No, not everybody is a full time employee, and this is often by design. By restricting hours for employees, these companies can avoid having to provide healthcare for their employees.>>531479066No, that is base salary + bonuses only. Sorry I forgot the link, I posted it above.>>531479603I agree with you. However it seems that the executives of these companies increasingly hide behind this excuse while implementing anti-worker policies and paying themselves exhorbiant wages.>>531479646Yes, people should boycott these places. ESPECIALLY Amazon. Amazon is rapidly becoming the dystopian business ideal by providing anything and everything to consumers. Consumers should research where their products are coming from and stop buying from Amazon. This includes things like groceries from Whole Foods, all the way down to the books you buy, since Amazon even owns multiple book publishing companies at this point.
>>531480290These corporations were ranked not by CEO compensation, but rather their median employee pay. The CEO compensation metric simply serves as an illustration of the disparity in pay between working class Americans and corporate executives as well as the frivolous allocation of revenue. You are correct that retarded, unskilled American labor does not deserve high pay. However under the current system, corporations are incentivized to keep wages as low as possible and pass along the burden to the taxpayer. The fact is that these corporations are paying many people less than what is needed to survive in our country while the taxpayer is picking up the tab.
>>531478011its fakehes just the fall guybezos ceo worker pay gap is 58,934
>>531480436We nees better wagie laws. More PTO, higher salaries, less work hours, better overtime. And I agree any company that generates that much profit yet has wagies on public welfare need to be shot
>>531481450You are correct. And the Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy's net worth was estimated to be roughly $500 million in January 2025.
>>531477515using stock buybacks to pump your own share value should be a prosecutable crime
>>531477515wtf is it sorted alphabetically?
>>531478513>A government that's controlled by billionaires should punish.....billionaires.Yeah keep dreaming bud
>>531477515If those lazy workers want to earn more money they should become CEOs
>>531477898The top 10% own 90% of the wealth in the stock market.
>>531477872divide there entire salary up amongst all of their employees and each of them would get like $500. The problem is inflation
Lords and peasants.Rich normies and poor normies.Materialism is a sin.
>>531477515>Affordability CrisisBut Elon told me there is no affordability crisis
>>531484096Check out the study link posted by OP, the real problem would be the $200+ BILLION spent by these companies on stock buybacks
Basically every employee could have gotten a 10,000 raise per year for the cost of those buybacks per year. Just rough and dirty, there's lots of variables at play.
>>531483785Half the money in the stock market was given away for free by the government
>>531477515>Andrew JassyFucking kek
>>531477515>accelerationismhere we go
GET IN THE ZONEAUTOZONE
