Public companies have to report executive compensation and how that compares with median worker pay.

Scott Seu, the CEO of Hawaiian Electric Industries, earned more than $6.5 million last year — 58 times more than the utility’s median employee .

That included a $1.7 million bonus, which Seu returned following criticism related to the Lahaina wildfire . Seu could still get that money back, but even without it the pay disparity is still almost 43 to 1.

Publicly traded companies are required to disclose these kinds of ratios to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a requirement of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, a post-financial crisis reform package.

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