Live Nation’s CEO has the widest pay gap in the entire Fortune 500

Evidence

In 2022, Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino had the biggest paycheck and the widest CEO-to-worker pay gap of any Fortune 500 executive, with $139 million, 5,414 times as much as his firm’s median pay. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 232

Categorization

• CANDY: A single crisp, conversational stat — the music industry holds the CEO-to-worker pay-gap record — that lands as a fun fact over dinner.
• XREF: connects to: Stock-based executive pay widened CEO-worker income gaps. — Gerald F. Davis & Suntae Kim, Financialization of the Economy, 56