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The New York Times Company made $2.4 billion in revenue in 2023, and our CEO gave herself a 36% raise, while members of our unit were given around 3% with persistent wage gaps for women and people of color.
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Using Meredith Kopit-Levien's annual pay from the New York Times, at $10.2 million (as stated in the graph.) Then pluging in the 36% raise she was 'given' in 2024(?) and divide by 600 Times Tech Guild members. The following is what I got.
Base salary: $10.2 million
36% of $10.2 million = $10.2 million × 0.36 = $3.672 million
$3.672 million ÷ 600 = $6,120 per person
Current average salary: $158,000 (using what was stated in the graph)
Potential raise: $6,120
Percentage increase = ($6,120 ÷ $158,000) × 100 = 3.87%
So if the value of the 36% raise ($3.672 million) were distributed equally among the 600 guild members:
Each member would receive a $6,120 raise
This would represent approximately a 3.87% increase to their current average salary.
Or, to put it another way, at baseline, the CEO does the work of 64 people (10.2m/158k). And after raises, the CEO does the work of 85 people (13.9m/163k).
That depends on your values. If your values say quantifying how much workers stand to gain if they shut down exorbitant C-suite wages, then good for you.
In most cases decreasing the CEO wage increase to increase workers would only increase workers wages by a tiny amount. That's almost never the point. The point is that giving the CEO a bigger raise than the workers is a mockery of who actually produces anything.