The SEC requires companies to disclose the relationship between the CEO’s pay and the median annual compensation of the company’s workers. Ford (NYSE: F | F Price Prediction) CEO Jim Farley made $27,519,557 in 2025. The worker’s pay on that basis (less his) was $93,397
Farley’s 2024 comp was $24,861,866. Executive Chairman Bill Ford (William Clay Ford, Jr.), who signs the shareholder letter on the proxy and whose family controls the board through a special class of shares, made $20,276,466 last year.
In terms of the Ford control of the company, the proxy states, “Publicly traded common shares carry one vote per share, while the voting power of each Class B share is adjusted annually to provide Class B shareholders (members of the Ford family) with an aggregate of 40 percent of the total voting power, and thus considerable influence over all matters requiring shareholder approval.”
The Ford control may be why Alexandra Ford English and Henry Ford III are on the board, even though they lack qualifications for those positions.
What did Ford shareholders get for this compensation? For one thing, a $19.5 billion write-off for its failed EV business, and a company that lost $8.2 billion.
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