CEO pay skyrockets in 2025 amid growing income inequality in the US

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Elon Musk earned 2.5 million times more than a Tesla worker's median pay in 2025, despite revenue and sales declines.

The pay gap between executives and their employees has widened from 2024 to 2025, with chief executives making 312 times what their median worker earned, according to the AFL-CIO, the largest coalition of labour unions in the United States.
That’s up from the previous rate of 285 times the median worker salary for executives working in the companies listed on the S&P 500 index.