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17 tech CEOs who earn more than 100x as much as their employees

Julie BortAug 25, 2015, 18:30 IST

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Earlier this month, the SEC passed a new rule to take place in 2017. Public companies will be required to disclose the CEO's "pay ratio."

That ratio compares how much the company is paying the CEO compared to how much, on average, the company pays an employee. The idea is to give investors a guideline for rating fair CEO pay.

In honor of this new rule, Glassdoor sifted through its trove of self-reported employee salary data. It compared median average employee compensation in its database to CEO total compensation among companies on the S&P 500. (It had enough data on 441 companies.) From this, Glassdoor produced a

Since the salary data is self-reported, the data isn't perfect. But its still a interesting look employee vs. CEO pay.

We've sifted through the massive list to come up with this list of CEOs who are paid at least 100 times more than their employees.