Tag: CEO pay

"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.

There are clear channels that people can use to put downward pressure on the pay of those at the top in both the corporate and noncorporate sector that don’t require going through Washington.

Carly Fiorina personifies corporate greed and economic inequality claiming that “running government like a business” would be a positive. Who actually thinks she belongs in the White House?

Corporations have added a new level of “pay police” to oversee the platinum paychecks of top bosses. But even when the board runs this process, the chief’s pay keeps going up, up and away.