Since 2018, every U.S. public company has had to disclose the ratio of its CEO's total annual compensation to that of its median employee, under Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act. A ratio of 300-to-1 means the chief executive is paid about 300 times what a typical worker at that company earns. Fair500 reads this figure straight from each company's annual proxy statement (SEC form DEF 14A). More on what the rule does and does not require.

Each company receives a 0–100 fairness score from two measures, weighted equally: the CEO-to-worker pay gap, and median worker pay relative to the profit each employee helps generate. You can view either one on its own, or combined. A higher score means more of the company's success reaches the people who work there. Full methodology.

Almost. Fair500 currently maps 494 of the 500 companies in the S&P 500. Five became separate public companies only in 2025 or 2026 through spinoffs or mergers, and a newly public company is not yet required to publish a CEO pay ratio: FedEx Freight, Honeywell Aerospace, SanDisk, Paramount Skydance and Qnity Electronics. Each will be added once it files its first full proxy statement. One more, Take-Two Interactive, is left out because its chief executive is paid through an external management company, so its disclosed ratio measures almost nothing and the company also lost money over the period, leaving neither score available.

The dataset is rebuilt as companies file their annual proxy statements, which cluster in the spring each year. Each company's numbers reflect its three most recent fiscal years. Last updated July 2026.

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