While it's surely not worth dwelling over, it nonetheless merits note: The highest-paid CEOs and their top-level colleagues rake in more money in one year — typically way more — than most of us will see in a lifetime.
Across the nation, CEOs at the largest companies made a median $20 million last year, up 31% from 2020, according to the executive compensation data firm Equilar.
That's 278 times the median annual pay of roughly $72,000 for average workers at those same companies, up about 4% from the previous year.
