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General Category => Economy/Business => Topic started by: rangerrebew on July 25, 2017, 04:12:54 pm

Title: Companies do better when CEO pay dwarfs average worker, study finds
Post by: rangerrebew on July 25, 2017, 04:12:54 pm
Companies do better when CEO pay dwarfs average worker, study finds

Published: July 24, 2017 5:04 p.m. ET


By
Steve
Goldstein
D.C. bureau chief

As Democrats launch their midterm agenda focused in large part on reigning in corporate excess, here’s a study with a decidedly different take.

A paper to be presented at the American Accounting Association annual meeting finds that the higher the gap is between CEO pay and that of the median worker, the better the company performance.

The researchers examined CEO pay ratios for 817 firms, whose CEOs had an average annual compensation of $7.8 million and whose workers’ mean pay was about $74,000.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-bigger-the-ceo-to-worker-pay-gap-the-better-the-performance-study-finds-2017-07-24
Title: Re: Companies do better when CEO pay dwarfs average worker, study finds
Post by: dfwgator on July 25, 2017, 04:14:44 pm
If the CEO is worth it, that is.
Title: Re: Companies do better when CEO pay dwarfs average worker, study finds
Post by: driftdiver on July 25, 2017, 04:21:36 pm
I really don't care how much CEOs make.   If you aren't happy with your pay get a different job.  If the owners of the company are ok with it who the heck should have an opinion?
Title: Re: Companies do better when CEO pay dwarfs average worker, study finds
Post by: Wingnut on July 25, 2017, 05:21:55 pm
Dwarfs always get the short end of the pay scale.