Study: Average CEO pay $16.3M

Chief executives of the country’s largest firms made 303 times more than a “typical” worker in 2014, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, a leftleaning think tank.

That number is lower than it was in 2000, when CEO compensation peaked at 376 times that of the average worker. The report found that average compensation in 2014 for CEOs of the largest firms was $16.3 million, up 3.9 percent from a year before.

The report calculated average CEO compensation based on data from the 350 publicly owned firms in the U.S. with the largest revenue each year, and includes stock options exercised in a given year.