America’s CEOs: In a Class All by Themselves
Workers in the United States don’t make double what workers make in Japan or Switzerland. Why should U.S. CEOs routinely...
Category: CEOs
Walmart’s Top-to-Bottom Taxpayer Subsidies
Low-income families weren’t the only ones hurt by cuts to food stamps last fall. Top Walmart executives also took a...
Is CEO Pay and Performance Linked? Not for Coca-Cola
The CEO and other top executives at Coca-Cola have been giving themselves lavish bonus packages. According to the calculations of...
Walmart’s Executive Bonuses Cost Taxpayers Millions
Walmart has been widely criticized for shifting the costs of its low-wage model onto taxpayers. This report, co-published by IPS...
Executive pay is an insult to working families
Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, but here’s one more thing to remember: American chief executives make too darn...
Top-paid CEOs get 400% raises — you’ll get 2.9%
While many companies doled out seven-figure raises for their top brass last year, they were far more stingy with the...
Median CEO Pay Passes The $10 Million Mark For First Time
The median CEO pay package hit $10.5 million last year, according to the Associated Press, cracking eight figures for the...
Obscenely high CEO salaries are stark marker of U.S. wealth gap
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
Coke’s executive pay: Fueled by corporate cronyism
Coke has recently come under fire for what it pays its top executives. The overlapping roles that board members play...
Salary of McDonald’s CEO should be slashed, activist shareholders say
The salary of McDonald’s CEO Donald Thompson should be slashed by the company’s Board of Directors due to the chain’s...
The Big Tip that America’s Servers Never See
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play —...
Fast Food Failure: How CEO-to-Worker Pay Disparity Undermines the Industry and the Economy
The link between income inequality and economic instability has drawn renewed attention from economists, policy makers, global financial institutions, media,...
Taxpayers Are Subsidizing CEO Pay
There’s another reason to get upset when CEOs make millions: Taxpayers are subsidizing some of this wealth.
Obscenely High CEO Salaries are Stark Marker of U.S. Wealth Gap
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
C.E.O. Pay Goes Up, Up and Away!
At 79, Graef “Bud” Crystal is the grand old man of executive compensation critics. Once a top compensation consultant, he...
JPMorgan Paid $20 Billion in Fines Last Year—So Its Board Is Giving Jamie Dimon a Raise
The New York Times reported Friday that Jamie Dimon, the silver-haired CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank by...
Median CEO Pay Jumped 13 Percent Last Year To $10.5 Million
Median CEO pay rose to $10.5 million last year at America’s largest companies, according to a USA Today analysis that...
McDonald’s CEOs Get Big Pay Increases, Despite Falling Sales
NEW YORK — McDonald’s Corp. more than tripled the pay packages last year for its new CEO Don Thompson and...
Corporate Cronyism: The Secret to Overpaid CEOs
High pay may be understandable when a top executive turns around a failing company or vastly expands a company’s revenue...
Casino Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Wants U.S. to Nuke Iran
Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson told a crowd at Yeshiva University in New York on Tuesday that the only proper negotiating...
Former CEO: Executive Pay Is ‘A Fraud’
You can blame the stagnant economy on a “handful of women and men” who run the country’s largest companies. And...
CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law
Former Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson, 54, of J.C. Penney Co. got a compensation package worth 1,795 times the average...
Fast Food CEO: Low-Paid Managers Prefer ‘Stature’ to Overtime Pay
So-called fast food “managers” who do much of the same work as non-managerial workers, but without being eligible for overtime...
