The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy is gathering signatures for the Overpaid CEO Tax Ordinance, a ballot initiative that would progressively tax large businesses whose CEOs make more than 50 times what their median worker makes, with higher taxes as the gap grows more extreme. It hopes to get the measure on the November ballot.
They showed median CEO pay up 11% for large-cap companies, led by media/entertainment with a median rise of 117%, according to one report from ISS-Corporate.
According to recent SEC filings, Warner Bros. Discovery’s 2025 CEO pay ratio was 1,378-to-1 on chief David Zaslav’s $165 million package. Paramount’s pay ratio was 1,109-to-1 based on CEO David Ellison $63.2 million pay.
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