An entry level position in Tyson Foods' Forest, Mississippi, plant is $12 an hour.
This is equivalent to $24,960 a year (which is not a living wage, even in Forest).
Tyson Foods' CEO Donnie King's total annual compensation (salary, stock awards, stock options, bonus) is 8.999 million.
The CEO is earning $12 every ten seconds.
The U.S. needs a law that ties executive compensation to the median hourly rate of the workers.
As a side note, King enjoys other perks that are not included in his compensation, like business meals & entertainment paid for by the company, 4-6 weeks of paid vacation, and use of the company's jet for business travel.
If Tyson Foods sounds familiar, the company was in the news in 2020 for betting on which workers at their Iowa plant would get COVID.