Pay at the top

[jwmorrice]

Not going to have to pass around the hat for these guys. Click on the link.

jwm

"The compensation research firm Equilar compiled data reflecting pay for 200 chief executives at 198 public companies that filed their annual proxies by March 27 and had revenue of at least $6.3 billion. (Two companies, Motorola and Synnex, had co-C.E.O.’s.)"
http://projects.nytimes.com/executive_compensation?hp

 

[ig-88]

I'm no commie, but damn!

 

[peeler_feeler]

I notice very few females in that listing. It's still a boyz club.

 

[ig-88]

a mostly white boyz club

 

[binderman]

Good for them, I hope they do even better in the coming years after the recession. The only way to make money in a free market is provide services better and cheaper for us consumers.

 

[viking1965]

Good for them, I hope they do even better in the coming years after the recession. The only way to make money in a free market is provide services better and cheaper for us consumers.

Yes, that's exactly how the Financial Services and Automaker CEO's made their millions...and we consumers are much better off for it.

 

[jwmorrice]

Odd how EVERYONE wants a Democracy and FREE society until someone makes more money than them, then they want the Government to step in and apply a little Communism.

I'd guess a lot of shareholders would like to apply "a little communism" to their CEOs.

jwm

 

[viking1965]

Odd how EVERYONE wants a Democracy and FREE society until someone makes more money than them, then they want the Government to step in and apply a little Communism.

The concepts and principles of Democracy and a Free Society do not condone unencumbered Greed.

I have no problem with any individual making any amount of money, as long as it's justified and as long as they also appropriately and equitably recognize the contributions of the "entire team". Today's exectutives seem to concentrate profit (bonuses) at the top, but deflect loss (salary & benefit cuts, layoffs) to the bottom.

When executives get handsomely rewarded for driving their companies and entire economies into the ground it pisses me (and many others) off. The "pissed off" part is Democracy and Free Society at work.

 

[james t kirk]

I don't get it...

Stever Jobs, CEO of Apple makes less than 100 k a year.

I don't believe that.