US CEOs paid 300 times more than workers

Chief Executives of America’s top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year – Guardian reports.

The figure, taken from a new report in the Economic Policy Institute, shows that bosses of America’s largest companies got an average pay rise of 17.6% in 2017.

Workers’ wages stalled in comparison – rising just over 0.3% over the year.

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