The Idiot Index

Sector
Executive ExtractionApplied to companies whose primary cost basis is physical materials and manufacturing.

Executive Extraction in Hardware Manufacturing · FY 2023

38 of 45 companies · highest first
  1. 1
    AAPLApple
    CEO earns 672× the median worker
    sector median 218.2Top 1%
    671.6
    × CEO / median worker
  2. 2
    JBLJabil
    CEO earns 515× the median worker
    sector median 218.2Top 4%
    515.1
    × CEO / median worker
  3. 3
    CATCaterpillar
    CEO earns 434× the median worker
    sector median 218.2Top 7%
    433.9
    × CEO / median worker
  4. 4
    ETNEaton
    CEO earns 405× the median worker
    sector median 218.2Top 9%
    404.8
    × CEO / median worker
  5. 5
    TTTrane Technologies
    CEO earns 356× the median worker
    sector median 218.2Top 12%
    356.3
    × CEO / median worker
  6. 6
    CARRCarrier Global
    CEO earns 343× the median worker
    sector median 218.2Top 14%
    342.8
    × CEO / median worker
  7. 7
    ITWIllinois Tool Works
    CEO earns 338× the median worker
    sector median 218.2Top 17%
    338.1
    × CEO / median worker
  8. 8
    OTISOtis
    CEO earns 325× the median worker
    sector median 218.2Top 20%
    324.7
    × CEO / median worker
  9. 9
    JCIJohnson Controls
    CEO earns 321× the median worker
    sector median 218.2Top 22%
    321.1
    × CEO / median worker
  10. 10
    DOVDover
    CEO earns 317× the median worker
    sector median 218.2Top 25%
    317.2
    × CEO / median worker

Not yet covered (7)

These companies are in the Hardware Manufacturing cohort but don't have a Executive Extraction computed for FY 2023. Either the underlying inputs aren't tagged in their XBRL filings, the DEF 14A pay-ratio narrative didn't parse cleanly, or this fiscal year hasn't been ingested for them yet.

What this measures

Full methodology →

How many times a CEO out-earns the median employee.

Ratio
Executive Extraction
Sector
Hardware Manufacturing
Methodology version
v1.0.0
Formula
CEOTotalCompensation / MedianEmployeeCompensation
Sector context

Applied to companies whose primary cost basis is physical materials and manufacturing.

Required disclosure under Dodd-Frank Section 953(b) since 2018. Filed in DEF 14A proxy statements. The dashboard aggregates the disclosure across the top 50 and ranks.

Source data: CEO total compensation and median employee compensation, both as filed in the company's most recent DEF 14A. When the ratio is XBRL-tagged we use the tagged value; otherwise the narrative disclosure is parsed (~99% accuracy).