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.
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