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For instance, in the United States, the average CEO makes roughly 300 times what their average employee earns. To put that into perspective, one would need to work for 300 years to earn what a CEO makes in a single year. Meanwhile, the job market is hemorrhaging jobs at its worst pace since 2003, with nearly 2 million layoffs recorded so far this year. Such widespread redundancies serve as a foreboding sign that a recession might already be underway, even if official declarations lag behind.