The Rebecca Ledger

All companies · US · fiscal 2026

Salesforce

296times · chief executive pay ÷ median employee pay verified

It would take Salesforce's median employee 296 years to earn what its chief executive earned in one. That is below the 312 to 1 average across the S&P 500 in 2025.

Down from 308 to 1 the prior year.

Show the evidence
Source
Salesforce, SEC Form DEF 14A, filed April 2026 — open the filing
Chief executive total compensation verified
$49,379,252 — Marc Benioff, as reported in the Summary Compensation Table
Median employee total compensation verified
$166,753 — global median, employed as of Nov 1 2025
Ratio verified
$49,379,252 ÷ $166,753 = 296. This ratio is disclosed by the company itself in the filing.
Retrieved
2026-09-07
Methodology caution
SEC rules let each company choose how it identifies its median employee — whether part-time and seasonal pay is annualized, which countries are included. Ratios are exact within a company and approximate between companies. Full methodology.

The numbers

$49,379,252
Chief executive verified
Marc Benioff, fiscal 2026 total compensation
$166,753
Median employee verified
global median, employed as of Nov 1 2025
296:1
Ratio verified
S&P 500 average is 312:1
31
Pay Fairness score calculated
0–100, from the ratio alone. Formula
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Employee ownership insufficient data
Not disclosed. No company on the ledger yet publishes what share of its stock is held by rank-and-file employees. That silence is itself the finding.
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What 20 to 1 would look like proposal

This is a Rebecca Ledger model, not a prediction and not something the company has said or done. It caps chief-executive pay at twenty times this company's own median employee, and changes nothing else.

Chief executive today verified$49,379,252
Under a 20× cap proposal$3,335,060 (20 × $166,753)
Difference calculated$46,044,192
What the difference equals calculatedabout 276 more employees paid at this company's own median

The arithmetic is the whole model: one year of the difference, divided by one median salary. It assumes nothing about taxes, share price, or whether the company would do it. It is meant to make a large number legible, not to predict a decision.

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