CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios Top 500:1 at Major Hotel and Travel Companies
Photo Credit: Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano. The company reported one of the widest gaps in the hotel indusry between CEO and median worker pay. Flickr / World Economic Forum
Skift Take
Many companies have said there’s no standard methodology for determining the ratio for CEO-to-median employee pay, which makes direct comparisons tricky.
Rank-and-file employees at some of the United States’ biggest hotel brands should expect to earn one dollar for around every $500 in compensation their CEO makes.
That’s according to a Skift analysis of new filings by publicly traded travel and tourism companies that detail pay ratios between chief executives and median earners.
Hilton Worldwide Holdings (577:1), Las Vegas Sands (515:1), and Marriott International (475:1) reported the widest hotel and lodging industry gaps between the CEO and median employee, SEC filings indicate.
At Marriott, for example, CEO Anthony Capuano earned more than $21.9 million in total compensation during 2024, while a median employee earned about $42,000, according to the company’s proxy statement.
“The pay ratio could vary from year to year depending on factors such as annual incentive plan payouts and compensation decisions affecting the CEO and median employee,” Marriott said in a statement to Skift.
At Hilton, CEO Christopher Nassetta earned nearly $28 million in total compensation during 2024, while a median employee earned about $48,500, according to the company’s most recent proxy statement. (CEO pay is calculated in different ways. By another measure, Skift recently reported that Nassetta was awarded nearly $59 million last year.)
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