You seem to have missed the point. It is not about her salary per se, obscene as it is, but the fact that she is balking at a 40% pay increase for employees while accepting that very amount (almost) for herself. If she (or the Board) capped her pay increase at 20%, the optics might be a little better for her.

One can understand the math and still think the CEO having the “good for me but not for thee” mentality is a bad look. 

Yup.

Labor: “The company did better, you did better, what about us?”

What I am saying is that the CEO’s increase in total compensation (or even just the the performance based part) isn’t a good comparison since it goes up and down where as these would gauranteed wage rates.

I’m interested in all employees of a company having the same opportunities to profit from or cash in on the company’s success, not just the C-suite or other top executives.

Glad we’re finally waking up. I saw a graph on New York Times today that showed the increase in top 10% of income increase directly disproportionally to the decrease in union memberships (so unions declined, wealth inequality went up). No one is saying CEOs should make as much as the line worker, we’re saying they…

I didn’t even start on how various executives/board members are frequently on multiple boards, which is who sets the CEO compensation package. Therefore, it is in their best interest to keep the making the packages as large as possible, so when theirs comes around it is just “market value” while everyone ignores that…

Lol how do you taste anything with the boot leather flavor permanently on your palate?

I’m simply blown away that the mainstream media actually pointed this out and to their faces! For a brief, shining moment, they were journalists!!

You are doing it wrong. If you get to that level, you don’t want to be hired. You want to be fired. They don’t have Golden parachutes, they have diamond and platinum ones.

“You make one silver coin, I make ten silver coins. It is fair!”

$30 million? Wow. I will gladly be the CEO of any company for just $3 million and then I’ll use AI to help make the big shareholder decisions. Who’s hiring me?

Wealthy people don’t want big incomes because then they might actually have to pay taxes and contribute to the country’s infrastructure that makes their business possible, like all their workers have to. They can still obtain extremely low interest loans using those stocks as capital and then spend that cash as though…

ACAD - All CEO’s Are Douchebags.

$30,000,000 a year = ~$577,000 a week. 1 month of that pay and I could retire immediately with no worries. Hell, 1 week and I could live debt free with enough left over to work part time until retirement.

Before I retired, I was a professional equity investor. Our primary clients were union pension funds. Because these were big accounts (>$100M), each client had authority to restrict what could be bought, and could decide on how to vote the proxies.

A coworker just yesterday tried to justify COE pay like halo quarterbacks in the NFL. Sigh. 

Our courts are a joke. As much as I celebrated the verdict, I knew the families probably wouldn't see any of that money. It's not like OJ's been forced to pay the Goldmans. Housekeeping and entertainment aren't required. The fact that the court is even entertaining his bankruptcy claim is pathetic. He's spent enough…

The Kia Soul beat out the Element in that market segment.