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

Swiss vote for tough curbs on executive pay - Europe - Al Jazeera English

Swiss vote for tough curbs on executive pay - Europe - Al Jazeera English:

Shareholder voting on pay that matters?  This will be interesting to watch.  


"Swiss citizens voted to impose some of the world's strictest controls on executive pay, forcing public companies to give shareholders a binding vote on compensation, initial result projections showed.

Claude Longchamp, of pollsters Gfs

Heinz CEO Johnson Would Get $200 Million in Post-Berkshire Exit - Yahoo! Finance

Heinz CEO Johnson Would Get $200 Million in Post-Berkshire Exit - Yahoo! Finance:


"H.J. Heinz Co. (HNZ) Chief Executive Officer Bill Johnson could receive more than $200 million should he exit after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) and Jorge Paulo Lemann's 3G Capital Inc. buy the ketchup maker.

Johnson, 64, would get "Golden Parachute Compensation" including $56 million in

CEO pay in the FTSE 100

English: Differences in national income equality around the world as measured by the national Gini coefficient. The Gini coefficient is a number between 0 and 1, where 0 corresponds with perfect equality (where everyone has the same income) and 1 corresponds with perfect inequality (where one person has all the income, and everyone else has zero income). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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