THE OFFICE INDEX

CEO pay ratio: how many times the median worker the CEO earns

The ratio each company reports in its proxy statement: CEO total pay ÷ median employee pay. Highest first.

Companies ranked: 138
No. 1: Wayfair
Middle of the pack: 215×
Updated: 2026

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Not published (181): Amazon, Tesla, Oracle, Adobe, Cisco, IBM, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, ServiceNow, Intuit, Spotify, Shopify, SAP, Airbnb, Sony Group, TSMC, Samsung Electronics, Toyota Motor Corporation, Nintendo, LVMH, Nestlé, Novo Nordisk, Bloomberg, Atlassian, Block, Stripe, adidas, H&M Group, Inditex, Fast Retailing (UNIQLO), The LEGO Group, Volkswagen Group, BMW Group, Honda, Hyundai Motor Company, Porsche, Airbus, Siemens, Roche, Novartis, Bayer, Alibaba Group, Baidu, Tencent, JD.com, Rakuten Group, Panasonic, SoftBank Group, Mitsubishi Corporation, Recruit Holdings, Mercari, CyberAgent, Shiseido, NTT, Deutsche Bank, Infosys, Klarna, Adyen, Ericsson, Zalando, Rolls-Royce, Carlsberg, A.P. Moller - Maersk, Heineken, RBC (Royal Bank of Canada), YouTube, Squarespace, Figma, Notion, Dyson, Telefónica, BASF, Macquarie Group, The Swatch Group, BBVA, Munich Re, Michelin, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Zurich Insurance Group, Audi, Lufthansa Group, DHL Group, Vestas, Danone, KONE, Bosch, Burberry, Banco Santander, Kering, UBS, DBS Bank, Hermès, Eni, Huawei, AXA, BNP Paribas, TD Bank Group (The Toronto-Dominion Bank), Fujifilm, KDDI, Commerzbank, BHP, Dentsu, SEGA, Kao, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, UniCredit, Yamaha, Intesa Sanpaolo, MIXI, ASOS, Xero, Kirin Holdings, Nokia, Asahi Group Holdings, Olympus, Daikin, ANA, Money Forward, Nissan, Sansan, DeNA, NEC, Bridgestone, Denso, ZOZO, Cybozu, KOKUYO, Saint-Gobain, Okamura, Henkel, Obayashi, Sumitomo Corporation, Nikon, ITOKI, Mitsui & Co., ABN AMRO, ENGIE, Telenor, Rabobank, Société Générale, CaixaBank, Nordea, Pirelli, Repsol, Crédit Agricole, AkzoNobel, Wärtsilä, Continental, GitHub, Pixar Animation Studios, Slack, PUMA, Canva, Revolut, BT Group, Takeda, Dassault Systèmes, Grab, Generali, Sun Life, Swedbank, Endesa, Thomson Reuters, Nutrien, Suncorp, Medibank, Lenovo, Imperial Oil, FIS, Jabil, Edwards Lifesciences, Aflac, Insight Enterprises, Fivetran, Glenmede, Davis Wright Tremaine, Whole Foods Market, Oberoi Realty, MathWorks. These companies don’t publish this figure, so we don’t rank them.

Questions

Which company has the highest CEO-to-median-employee pay ratio?

Among the 138 companies on eciffo that publish it, Wayfair ranks first with 5,702×, followed by Starbucks (1,794×) and The Coca-Cola Company (1,739×).

What is a typical CEO-to-median-employee pay ratio at big companies?

The middle company in this ranking, AT&T, has 215×. Half of the 138 ranked companies are above that and half below.

Where do these numbers come from?

The ratio each company reports in its proxy statement: CEO total pay ÷ median employee pay. Highest first. Companies that don’t publish the figure are not ranked; eciffo never estimates.

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