Goldman Sachs quietly crowned CEO David Solomon the early 2025 pay leader among Fortune 500 companies with a double-digit percentage raise that puts him above both JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and Disney's Bob Iger. While not all Fortune 500 companies have released their executive compensation for 2025, banking CEOs like Solomon and Dimon are among the early winners. Still the most eye-popping pay drop may belong to Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol, whose 2025
The idea that executives, as a class, are individually contributing over 100 times more in value than the workers they rely on is simply not credible.
Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers has signed off on new wage levels for CEOs at Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann and Gas Networks Ireland. Approval was given on October 8 to increase the salary for the chief executive of Bus Éireann from €210,000 to €260,000. Jean O'Sullivan took up the position on November 1. The newly appointed CEO at Iarnród Éireann, Mary Considine, started on a €300,000 salary on September 15, up from €225,000.
Mr O'Callaghan claimed the Government was boosting the pay of semi-state chiefs without any reference to economic headwinds or global volatility regarding their gold plated salaries.