A Huge Pay Package
Ford Has Done Poorly
Ford Family Controls The Company
A recent study identified one single habit that doubled Americans’ retirement savings and moved retirement from dream, to reality. Read more here.
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) 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.
Read: Data Shows One Habit Doubles American’s Savings And Boosts Retirement
Most Americans drastically underestimate how much they need to retire and overestimate how prepared they are. But data shows that people with one habit have more than double the savings of those who don’t.
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.
Most Americans drastically underestimate how much they need to retire and overestimate how prepared they are. But data shows that people with one habit have more than double the savings of those who don’t.
And no, it’s got nothing to do with increasing your income, savings, clipping coupons, or even cutting back on your lifestyle. It’s much more straightforward (and powerful) than any of that. Frankly, it’s shocking more people don’t adopt the habit given how easy it is.
