Agree, this feels like rage bait stats. Anyone who knows about business or at least has tried to run one understands that (typically) the higher up you are in a

Agree, this feels like rage bait stats. Anyone who knows about business or at least has tried to run one understands that (typically) the higher up you are in a company, the more high-leverage decisions you make. So, if the CEO made choices that increase profit by X multiple, bumping a single persons salary (heck even a handful of execs) by a decently high percent is very different than increasing the 10k’s of employees salaries. Honestly, a 7% average (not even talking median) sounds pretty darn good given the size of them