I think this demonstrates how the stats may have been manipulated a bit (you know what they say about stats...). Notice it's not compared to CEO & his company's workers but rather the "national average income".
Even with the slant, it still seems to be a trend that can't be good.
"...CEOs at top companies earned 380 times the average worker's income in 2011
So how do CEOs stack up against ordinary workers? Well, the average CEO of a company on the S&P 500 Index earned 380 times the average American worker's wage, with average CEO pay having increased 13.9 percent in 2011.
The highest-paid CEO in the country was Apple's Timothy Cook, whose total compensation was nearly $378 million. That's more than 11,000 times the average worker's income of $34,053. The 100th highest-paid CEO, Heinz's W.R. Johnson, had total compensation of more than $18 million, 543 times the average worker's income.
What we can't know is how much CEOs make compared with the workers in their own companies; however, that's something the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill will soon require companies to disclose.