If you were to guess how much money the CEO of McDonald’s makes in comparison to his average employee, what would you guess? Whatever you guessed, chances are you should have guessed higher.

The answer is 3,101 times higher, meaning that a regular McDonald’s employee would have to work for over three millennia to make as much as their CEO made in 2017 alone. So whilst we should all celebrate that his employees are all at least earning a minimum wage allowing them to afford basic food and housing, should we not look at equality from the top down?

McDonald’s might be an extreme example but according to the High Pay Center, the average pay of a top UK Chief Executive has increased from about 60 times the average UK worker in the late 1990s to more than 170 times today.