CEO-to-Worker Pay Reports Show Wildly Divergent Ratios

• Median pay ratio is 130-to-1

• Many outliers are retailers and consumer services companies that employ part-time workers

More than 1,000 publicly traded companies have disclosed their fiscal 2017 pay CEO-to-worker comparisons to investors this year, with thousands more set to file as proxy season heats up.

As of April 5, transportation provider CH Robinson Worldwide Inc. sits in the exact median spot of all filers, with a pay ratio of 130-to-1. Yum China Holdings Inc., operator of Pizza Hut and KFC restaurants in China that’s incorporated in Delaware, on March 30 reported the largest ratio to date at 2,818-to-1, according ...