In 1989, the average was 61-to-1. That was 1,211 times the pay of its median employee, the company's filings noted. In 2019, for example, the average pay ratio among 350 large American companies was 320-to-1, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C. Acuity Brands, an industrial technology company, paid its CEO, Neil M. Ashe, $21 million last year, or 2,316 times the median employee's pay. The value of the package put Culp at 1,357 times the median GE worker.
Acuity Budeson was paid out in the year after 1988.
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              :name (z2 / name
                        :op1 "Acuity"
                        :op2 "Budeson"))
    :time (z3 / after
              :op1 (z4 / date-entity
                       :year 1988)))
Acuity Budeson was paid out in the year after 1988 .
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