The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:10:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Excessive Executive Compensation: Investor Guidance – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Excessive Executive Compensation: Investor Guidance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/06/09/excessive-executive-compensation-investor-guidance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=excessive-executive-compensation-investor-guidance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/06/09/excessive-executive-compensation-investor-guidance/#respond Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:30:29 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=181729?d=20260609140003EDT Posted by Matthew Illian and Rosanna Landis Weaver, ICCR & United Church Funds, on Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Editor's Note:

Matthew Illian is the Director of Responsible Investing at United Church Funds, and Rosanna Landis Weaver is a Consultant at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). This post is based on their ICCR & United Church Funds report.

Introduction

For decades, ICCR members have called attention to the widening gap between corporate executive pay and the compensation of everyone else. In recent decades, the average CEO of the largest U.S. company has made around 300 times as much as the median worker. This gap highlights a fundamental imbalance in how companies distribute resources, with outsized executive compensation awarded alongside wages that often fail to meet the basic needs of most employees.

This wasn’t always the case. In 1965, CEOs were paid just 21 times as much as a typical worker.

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