McDonald’s CEO Makes Stunning 1,000 Times More Than Workers

The SEC requires companies to show the relationship between the CEO’s pay and the median pay of the company’s workers. For McDonald’s (NYSE MCD), that figure is 1,082 to 1, which is among the highest in the S&P 500. To do the math, CEO Chris Kempczinski made $20,574,525 in 2025. The median pay of all ... McDonald’s CEO Makes Stunning 1,000 Times More Than Workers