CEO Pay: What is what is sometimes hard to determine

Offers a fascinating look at CEO pay that notes the difficulty in determining exactly how (or why) the CEO is paid as (s)he is.


A look in:


"For researchers seeking to understand CEO pay, theopacity of some of these instruments is of practicalinterest. Salary and bonus payments are the leastopaque; they are just cash payments. But even withthese simple instruments, investors and

So what is the CEO to average worker ratio? 511 or 4? Depends on what you report.

CEO Pay Continues to Rise as Typical Workers Are Paid Less | Economic Policy Institute:

NOTE:  This not as an argument against high CEO pay (have made that before), but to show how a study is done influences the reported findings.


We've all seen the headlines of how CEO pay is rising so quickly.

First from the Economic Policy Institute's

Same article:

"The CEO-to-worker compensation ratio

CEO Pay More Closely Matches Firms' Results - WSJ.com

CEO Pay More Closely Matches Firms' Results - WSJ.com:


"The study is among the first to assess how the rising popularity of performance-based restricted stock is affecting CEO pay. Performance-based stock is the fastest-growing segment of executive pay, accounting for 27.4% of the value of compensation granted to CEOs in 2012, up from 18.8% in 2008, according to a separate study by the Journal