# CEO pay skyrockets in 2025 as US income inequality widens

https://mins.news/en/item/22474

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-14 18:28 UTC
- Economy
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/8/14/ceo-pay-skyrockets-in-2025-amid-growing-income-inequality-in-the-us?traffic_source=rss

> The AFL-CIO says the average S&P 500 CEO earned 312 times the median worker’s pay in 2025, up from 285 times in 2024. Elon Musk received $158bn from Tesla—2.5 million times the company’s average employee pay—even as Tesla’s revenue fell 3 percent and sales declined about 9 percent.