The statistic in the article compares average CEO pay to the median income, which is not driven by company-to-company differences in category of labor.
> The statistic in the article compares average CEO pay to the median income
No, it compares the top 500 CEO pay out of 250k+ CEOs to all workers, which is as ludicrous and misleading as comparing the top 500 worker pay to all 250k CEOs and thinking this is the useful metric to rage about.
