The Winston-Salem Journal does a review each year of CEO compensation for 29 corporations based in the Triad or that have significant operations and workforces here. For fiscal 2020, the chief executives of 15 corporations received at least $100 in compensation for every $1 paid to their median employee. Median is defined as the middle value in a list of numbers. Median employee compensation factors in regular pay, overtime, bonuses, incentives, allowances and paid time off. During the early stages of the pandemic, there was speculation among financial analysts that the CEO pay ratio gap might shrink during 2020. Several corporations temporarily reduced executive management compensation by between 10% and 50%, along with requiring rank-and-file employees to be furloughed for several weeks or receive lower pay for reduced hours.