The gap between the income of companies and ordinary employees becomes catastrophic. About it reports the publication "Law and Business" with reference to international research, which has covered 2000 companies in 35 countries.
Since 2019, the salaries of CEOs have increased by 50% in real terms, while the income of ordinary workers - only 0.9%. In other words, top executives have become 56 times faster than their subordinates.
Particularly striking the scale of inequality is demonstrated by Europe. Thus, in 2024, the CEO average income in Ireland reached $ 6.7 million a year, in Germany - $ 4.7 million. In developing countries, a break, though smaller, but also significant, but also significant: in India - $ 2 million, in South Africa - $ 1.6 million.
“This is not an accidental anomaly. The system works so that the enrichment concentrates on the top, leaving most people fight for basic needs - housing, food, access to medicine, ”said Oxfam International Avitabh Behar.
Gender inequality remains an acute problem. Of the more than 45,000 companies where executives earn more than $ 10 million a year and whose gender is known, only 7% are headed by women.
The most wealthy global business representatives have increased their wealth by $ 206 billion in 2024, or an average of $ 23,500 per hour. Against this background, even the expected increase in real salaries by 2.7% in 2024, according to ILO, does not look significant. In many countries, the actual stagnation of income is noted - for example, in France, Spain and growth of growth, 0.6%did not exceed.
According to Oxfam, global inequality remains shocking, especially in low income countries. There, 10% of the richest earns 3.4 times more than 40% of the poorest citizens.
Against this background in Ukraine, efforts to support vulnerable categories of the population are ongoing. In particular, combatants are entitled to early retirement. However, these targeted initiatives do not change the overall background - in the world, the abyss between the Verkha and the bottom continues to grow.
