As they say, lies, damn lies, and statistics. OES for CEOs: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes111011.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes111011.htm OES for

As they say, lies, damn lies, and statistics. OES for CEOs: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes111011.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes111011.htm OES for GPs: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291062.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291062.htm It looks like what your saying makes sense... until you start to control for location. Look at the chart titled, "Metropolitan areas with the highest employment level in this occupation" for both pages, and you'll see that for every locale included in both places, CEO pay is higher than GPs. This is most likely because CEOs aren't evenly distributed with the population like GPs are (you can have one CEO at the top of 50k employees, but you need many more GPs than that for the same number of people).