Tag: CEO pay

President Biden has the power to crack down on executive excess by imposing new CEO pay and buyback restrictions on federal contractors.

“We believe that big corporations that can afford to pay their executives million-dollar salaries every year can afford to pay their fair share in taxes to help us recover.”

Average CEO pay at big corporations topped 14.5 million dollars in 2018. That’s after an increase of 5.2 million dollars per CEO over...

"The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or taxed more)."

In November 2019, SF voters will decide the fate of a proposed tax on corporations that pay their top exec more than 100 times worker pay.

"These shameful actions—and the Republican tax law that permitted them—indicate just how rigged the system is against working people and the middle class."

Corporate boards simply play by market rules. If they don’t, they risk losing their executive talent.

Unlike movie stars and athletes, skyrocketing pay for CEOs has nothing to do with markets.

Runaway CEO pay contributes to income inequality and ultimately harms companies, so local governments aren’t waiting for a federal fix.

The Oregon city has just adopted the first tax penalty on corporations with extreme gaps between their CEO and worker pay.