See how your pay compares to the CEOs of the top US companies

New data shows that compensation for the top jobs rose 5.9% in 2025

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Workers need to labor for 200 years to make what their CEO made in one, AP survey finds

The typical CEO compensation package rose nearly 6% in 2025 to $17.7 million, as company boards rewarded their top executives for bigger profits and higher stock prices, and gave them incentives to stick around and make even more money for shareholders in the years ahead. The median employee at these companies earned $89,744, reflecting a 4.7% increase year over year. While that gain outpaced inflation in 2025, many workers were still feeling pinched by the accumulation of higher prices over the past few years. Tesla CEO Elon Musk topped the survey with a pay package valued at $132 billion.

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PWHL players' salary release affirms vast disparity between top men's, women's stars
Figures show nearly 100 players made less than $50,000 US last season. The highest paid player, Ottawa Charge forward Emily Clark, earned $126,090.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/pwhl/pwhlpa-release-player-salaries-2026-9.7212748?cmp=rss
PWHL players' salary release affirms vast disparity between top men's, women's stars
Figures show nearly 100 players made less than $50,000 US last season. The highest paid player, Ottawa Charge forward Emily Clark, earned $126,090.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/pwhl/pwhlpa-release-player-salaries-2026-9.7212748?cmp=rss
This Simple Tool for Unrigging the Economy Is Spreading. Your Town Could Be Next.

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Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype

Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand โ€” and they set them fast. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowds in the thousands, offered huge cash prizes, and helped women "Swifts" fight for workplace equity.

The Public Domain Review

From #OWID: "What is the most #unequal country in South America? It depends on what metric you look at"

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/what-is-the-most-unequal-country-in-south-america-it-depends-on-what-metric-you-look-at

In my country, #Peru, 0.1% gets 22% of the income. Extremely unequal.

#SouthAmerica #Economics #Disparity

What is the most unequal country in South America? It depends on what metric you look at

One way to measure income inequality is to look at the share of all income that goes to the top income earners. The chart plots this for all seven South American countries with comparable 2022 pre-tax income estimates in the World Inequality Database.

Our World in Data
If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad?

Or: How the 2020s broke our brains

Derek Thompson