At Walmart, the CEO Makes 1,188 Times as Much as the Median Worker

Median worker’s pay was $19,177 last year at the world’s biggest retailer

Walmart Inc. paid its median worker $19,177 last year, while Chief Executive Doug McMillon earned $22.8 million, according to a securities filing Friday.

That places the retailer 10th among S&P 500 companies with the widest gap in pay between the CEO and a typical worker, based on an analysis of more than 330 firms that have disclosed the figures so far.

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