Charif Souki of Cheniere Energy pulled in $4.50 per second in 2014. (Photo: Screenshot)
A new interactive CEO salary tool doesn’t just talk about the Wealth Gap … it hits you square upside the head with it.
The , a site from ISP , displays in real time what the 50 highest-paid business CEOs made per second in 2014.
Doesn’t sound too exciting? Well, consider this:
Let’s say you go to your local Chipotle for lunch at noon on a weekday, and it takes, say, 7 minutes from the time you walk in the door, decide what to eat, order, receive your food and pay. In the time it took you to receive your delicious burrito, made $336.
In developed and developing countries alike, the poorest half of the population often controls less than 10% of its wealth. (Image: World Economic Forum)
In other words, it would take him less than 10 seconds of work to pay for your $7.78 steak burrito. Depressed yet? It gets better. Ells’ pay of $.80 per second pales in comparison to Cheniere Energy’s Charif Souki, who made $4.50 per second in 2014. (He’s since chosen to take a $1 salary for 2015.)
The global income inequality stats are staggering. Did you know that those with a net worth of more than $1 million make up a mere 0.7% of the global population, yet hold 41% of the world’s wealth? That’s what says. And it affects us all, says the :
People, especially young people, excluded from the mainstream end up feeling disenfranchised and become easy fodder of conflict. This, in turn, reduces the sustainability of economic growth, weakens social cohesion and security, encourages inequitable access to and use of global commons, undermines our democracies, and cripples our hopes for sustainable development and peaceful societies.
So chew on that for a while, while we play a fun little game: Click the image below to access the top-earning CEOs list, and figure out your own life relative to their pay.Fun, right? Let’s go!
Your 30-minute lunch break?
$1,854 for Time Warner CEO Jeffrey L. Bewkes.
Your 20 minute commute?
That equates to $1,164 in the pocket of Aetna CEO Mark T. Bertolini.
Math is fun, right? Bonus points if you can find CEOs who aren’t Caucasian males.
