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The data is scraped from this (which is paywalled, apologies): https://www.wsj.com/graphics/ceo-pay-for-the-sp500/?mod=hp_l...

Edit: Seeing a lot of people complaining about the data quality. A lot of the more interesting breakdown on salary vs stock etc was only available by clicking on each row. Maybe a more advanced scrape could reveal that stuff.

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This is a great idea and the Google Sheet share is a great format, but there are many flaws in the representation of the data. A great, immediate change would be to add a row at the top indicating some of the flaws, and then start making incremental changes to fix them (e.g. create a column for stock based compensation).

Cause overall this is a great topic, just needs some work so people can focus on the topic at hand rather then get bogged down in the data quality issue.

Appreciate it. Meant it mostly as a "Wow didn't know X company had 1000 to 1 CEO to median pay ratio". I'll see if I can get some more data / detail on what goes into the pay numbers.

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