time wage gap
Your hour vs. their hour.
Same 24 hours. Wildly different price.
/ set your wage
your hourly wage
≈ $60,590 / year
at 40 hr/wk × 52 wk
your annual salary
Satya Nadella earns it in 1.6 hours.
By the clock — Microsoft's 2024 total comp ÷ a 2,080-hour work year.
their hour
sorted by total comp (highest first) · disclosed in SEC proxy statements
Satya Nadella
CEO of Microsoft · FY2024
$38K/hr
$79M / yr
their 1 hour = 0.6 years of your work
FY2024 was a peak year — Microsoft pays its triennial Performance Stock Award once every three fiscal years. Off-cycle years are typically $35-40M.
Tim Cook
CEO of Apple · FY2024
$36K/hr
$75M / yr
their 1 hour = 0.6 years of your work
David Zaslav
CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery · FY2023
$24K/hr
$50M / yr
their 1 hour = 0.4 years of your work
Jamie Dimon
CEO of JPMorgan Chase · FY2023
$17K/hr
$36M / yr
their 1 hour = 14.9 weeks of your work
Bob Iger
CEO of Disney · FY2023
$15K/hr
$32M / yr
their 1 hour = 13.0 weeks of your work
Mark Zuckerberg
CEO of Meta · FY2023
$12K/hr
$24M / yr
their 1 hour = 10.1 weeks of your work
Salary $1. Most of comp is paid security; he doesn't take equity awards.
Sundar Pichai
CEO of Alphabet · FY2023
$4,231/hr
$8.8M / yr
their 1 hour = 18.2 workdays of your work
Off-cycle year. Alphabet pays Pichai's main equity grant every three years; his 2022 total was $226M, his 2025 grant year would land similarly high.
Andy Jassy
CEO of Amazon · FY2023
$625/hr
$1.3M / yr
their 1 hour = 21.5 hours of your work
Amazon caps base salary low; Jassy received a $214M stock grant in 2021 vesting over 10 years (excluded from annual figures after vest year).
Warren Buffett
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway · FY2023
$195/hr
$405K / yr
their 1 hour = 6.7 hours of your work
The famous footnote: the world's most successful investor pays himself less than a regional manager.
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"Same 24 hours. Wildly different price."
US federal min wage: $7.25/hr (unchanged since 2009). Median full-time worker: $29.13/hr. The S&P 500 CEO-to-median-worker pay ratio reached 290:1 in 2023 (AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch).
source: each company's most recent SEC DEF 14A proxy (Summary Compensation Table). Per-hour assumes 2,080 work hours/year. CEOs don't punch a clock — the rate is illustrative.