United Airlines CEO—who made $32 million last year—calls for a national wealth tax and a near-100% inheritance tax: ‘I would pay them’
Source: Fortune ·
Kirby’s 2025 pay was about 334 times what United’s median employee earned, as the richest 1% of U.S. households hold a growing share of the nation’s wealth.
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United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby earned $32.3 million last year, roughly 334 times the compensation of his company’s median employee. Now he says America’s wealthiest people should pay more in taxes, including an inheritance tax that could approach 100%. That puts Kirby alongside other wealthy business leaders, including Bill Gates and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who have publicly supported raising taxes on the rich. “Wealth inequality has become a danger to our society, and we need to address that,” Kirby said in an interview with The New York Times published Sunday. He continued: “We should have a national wealth tax — it won’t work by state because people will just move. And I think we should have inheritance taxes that get close to 100 percent at some level. I would pay them.” The comments came in response to a question about declining public trust in CEOs. Kirby’s own pay offers a striking illustration of the economic divide he described. What Kirby made last year Kirby’s total…