Fair500: S&P 500 profit vs. what reaches workers

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CEO Pay Gap<br>Combined<br>Avg. Worker Pay vs Profit

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Reading the chart

Right: makes more money (3-year average net profit, log scale)

Up: fairer, by the view you pick above

Bubble size: median worker pay

Color: fairness, red for a wide gap, green for a fair one

Bottom-right: makes the most, shares the least

The fairness score

CEO pay gap: how many times the median worker's pay the CEO takes. CEO pay is averaged over three years, so a one-off mega-grant does not swing it and it lines up with the three-year profit figure.

Avg. worker pay vs. profit: the typical worker's pay measured against the profit each employee generates.

A company that can only be judged on one of the two (a loss-maker has no profit to share; a CEO paid near zero has no real pay gap) is scored neutrally on the other, so it sits mid-pack rather than topping the list on a single number.

Switch between the two, or combine them, with the toggle above.

Sources & coverage

Revenue & net income: SEC EDGAR (last three fiscal years)

Pay ratio & median worker pay: proxy statement (DEF 14A)

Employee count: annual report (10-K)

Some companies aren't shown; a minority don't disclose the required figures in a machine-readable filing.

The ranking

Fairness score reflects the selected view · scroll the table sideways for more columns · click a column to sort

Gap<br>Combined<br>Value<br>Company<br>Pay ratio<br>Median pay<br>CEO pay<br>Revenue<br>Total profit<br>Net margin<br>Employees<br>Profit / worker<br>Pay vs. profit

How much the S&P 500 makes, and how much reaches its workers

Fair500 maps the profitability and pay fairness of every company in the S&P 500, from Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Nvidia and Meta to Walmart, JPMorgan Chase, ExxonMobil, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Disney . For each of 494 companies it plots how much profit the business earns against how much of that money actually reaches the people who do the work.

It uses two numbers every large company has to disclose: the CEO-to-worker pay ratio (how many times the median employee's pay the CEO takes home) and median worker pay set against the profit each employee generates. Both come straight from SEC filings, so you can compare companies side by side instead of arguing about executive pay in the abstract.

A wide ratio does not always mean what it looks like. The most extreme gaps in the index usually belong to companies whose median employee works part-time, or works outside the United States, rather than to companies with the largest executive packages. That effect is worth understanding before drawing conclusions, and the sector pages give a fairer comparison than an index-wide league table.

Common questions

What is the CEO-to-worker pay ratio?Since 2018, every U.S. public company has had to disclose the ratio of its CEO's total annual compensation to that of its median employee, under Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act. A ratio of 300-to-1 means the chief executive is paid about 300 times what a typical worker at that company earns. Fair500 reads this figure straight from each company's annual proxy statement (SEC form DEF 14A). More on what the rule does and does not require.

How does Fair500 measure pay fairness?Each company receives a 0–100 fairness score from two measures, weighted equally: the CEO-to-worker pay gap, and median worker pay relative to the profit each employee helps generate. You can view either one on its own, or combined. A higher score means more of the company's success reaches the people who work there. Full methodology.

Are all 500 companies included?Almost. Fair500 currently maps 494 of the 500 companies in the S&P 500. Five became separate public companies only in 2025 or 2026 through spinoffs or mergers, and a newly public company is not yet required to publish a CEO pay ratio: FedEx Freight, Honeywell Aerospace, SanDisk, Paramount Skydance and Qnity Electronics. Each will be added once it files its first full proxy statement. One more, Take-Two Interactive, is left out because its chief executive is paid through an external management company, so its disclosed ratio measures almost nothing and the company also lost money over the period, leaving neither score available.

How often is the data updated?The dataset is rebuilt as companies file their annual proxy statements, which cluster in the spring each year. Each company's numbers reflect its three most recent fiscal years. Last updated July 2026.

Is Fair500 free to use?Yes. Fair500 is free and supported by advertising. It draws on public government data and is not affiliated with the SEC or with any company listed.

All 494 companies covered (A–Z by ticker)

A Agilent Technologies<br>AAPL Apple Inc.<br>ABBV AbbVie<br>ABNB Airbnb<br>ABT Abbott Laboratories<br>ACGL Arch Capital Group<br>ACN Accenture<br>ADBE Adobe Inc.<br>ADI Analog Devices<br>ADM...