Top CEO pay increased 20 times faster than workers’ pay in 2025: report

With gas prices, energy bills, and grocery costs all rising, the affordability crisis is top of mind for most workers. But you can’t talk about that crisis without also talking about extreme wealth inequality, says Patricia Stottlemyer, policy lead for labor rights at Oxfam America. And just as affordability has worsened recently, so has the gap between regular workers and the rich, including company CEOs.  In 2025, for example, the top 1,500 CEOs of the world’s largest corporation...