Be cognizant of the impact of ratios at work here, Google's parent company Alphabet looks pretty good with only 29:1, but that is because its median worker pay is so high comparatively. I'm also seeing Accenture on the "naughty" list at 1526:1 but that could be because Accenture has a significant employee base in lower income countries (such as India) while its CEO is in a high income country. It may not be indicative of equal standards of living for where each resides.
Aptiv is another global company that drives that ratio really high by using labor in developing countries wherever possible. That shouldn't exempt them though, because in order to get hired in their developed country locations you effectively need a relevant PhD or an MBA and connections. Just because the labor they are exploiting is foreign does not mean they are not exploiting labor.
This includes foreign labor so that would explain this. There are countries in the world were you can love live comfortably on a four figure salary (I'm from one of them).
To think I'd only need to double my income to be rich beyond what I can consume on my own as opposed to barely scraping by. And now the average CEO makes 100x that. Anybody feeling like going Postal?
Obviously this is prolly includes their white collar corpo drones, ie security and janitors are subcontracted out to some sweat shop that violates their contracts and labor laws in normal course of business
The CEO pay is hilariously misrepresented as well. The Airbnb CEO might not get a huge salary compared to some of the others but he gets monstrous pay packages. He got $120 million in bonuses and stocks alone a few years ago.
Same goes for all CEOs. They typically wrap an ass ton of their "income" into bonuses and stocks options.
So all the back office functions (that any company needs to function regardless of the product/service they provide) are earning hundreds of thousands of dollars? No way.
Does it include cleaners? Most offices seem to hire external companies so don't hire cleaners themselves, or any of the "menial" jobs required to have a functioning office. Might hide much worse jobs