The AFL-CIO’s Executive Paywatch report continues to come under fire for cherry-picking their data. Both the Washington Examiner and Washington Post’s Fact Checker have chimed in, with the Washington Post calling claims that the average CEO makes 300 times the average worker “completely wrong.”
When using the Department of Labor’s figures, which include a more accurate salary accounting of 28 million small businesses nationwide, rather than just the S&P 500 CEOs, the CEO-to-worker pay gap comes nowhere near the 347-to-1 figure the AFL-CIO claims.
Read the most recent Washington Examiner article here.
