Top US bosses earn 278 times more than their employees

Chief executives earned an average of $17.2m each last year and their pay grew more than 1000 % since 1978, survey finds

Chief executives at the US's top companies took home $17.2m in pay last year - 278 times the salary of their average worker.

Between 1978 and 2018, the average pay of the bosses of the US's largest 350 companies has grown by 1,007.5%, adjusted for inflation, according to the Economics Policy Institute's latest survey.