Thursday, January 14, 2021

Four $1 Trillion Stock Market Cap Companies: Spreader of Pay Income Inequality Status ..... Some Good News For Silicon Valley Cos and Some Very Bad News For Washington State Cos

 For the Most Recent Two-Year Period

  • Alphabet's Audited Pretax Income Up By 45.7% and Median Company Employee Pay and Benefits Up 31.1% for a Very Low Ratio of 1.5 Times ..... Very Fair to Employees Thus Clearly Not a Spreader of Pay Income Inequality
  • Apple's Audited Pretax Income Down By 8.0% and Median Company Employee Pay and Benefits Up By 4.3% ..... Extremely Fair to Employees Thus Clearly Not a Spreader of Pay Income Inequality
  • Amazon's Audited Pretax Income Up By 267.2% and Median Company Employee Pay and Benefits Up By 1.4% For an Off-the-Charts Ratio of 189.1 Times ..... Incredibly Unfair to Employees Thus a Super Super Super  Spreader of Pay Income Inequality
  • Microsoft's Audited Pretax Income By Up 45.4% and Median Company Employee Pay and Benefits Up By Only 2.7% for an Extremely High Ratio of 17.1 Times ..... Extremely Unfair to Employees Thus a Super Super Spreader of Pay Income Inequality 

For Just the Most Recent One-Year Period

·  Alphabet's Audited Pretax Income Up By 13.5% and Median Company Employee Pay and Benefits Up 4.8% for a Reasonable Ratio of 2.8 Times ..... Fair to Employees Thus Not a Spreader of Pay Income Inequality

·  Apple's Audited Pretax Income Up By 2.1% and Median Company Employee Pay and Benefits Up By a very low 0.3% For a High Ratio of 6.3 Times .....Unfair to Employees Thus a Spreader of Pay Income Inequality

·  Amazon's Audited Pretax Income Up By 24.1% and Median Company Employee Pay and Benefits Up By a Miniscule 0.04% For a Completely Off-the-Charts Ratio of 579.4 Times ..... Incredibly Unfair to Employees Thus a Super Super Super Super Spreader of Pay Income Inequality

·  Microsoft's Audited Pretax Income Up By 21.4% and Median Company Employee Pay and Benefits Down By 0.2% for an Off-the-Charts Negative Ratio ..... Incredibly Unfair to Employees Thus a Super Super Super Spreader of Pay Income Inequality



From a review of these Companies' 10-K and Proxy Statement filings, the table below shows the Audited Pretax Income and Median Employee Pay and Benefits for each of these four Companies for the most recent three years.




























































































































































































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