According to The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations,
chief executives of these companies average a salary some 380 times greater than that of their typical worker.
Not exact matches
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday made waves in approving 3 - 2 a rule that will require most public
companies to regularly disclose the ratio
of chief executive pay to that
of the
average employee.
The Productivity Commission reported in 2009 that the
chief executives of ASX 100
companies had seen their annual compensation rise from an
average of $ 1 million in 1993 (representing 17 times
average earnings) to $ 3m in 2009 (42 times
average earnings).
Dr Cable added: «I just find it utterly nauseating all these chairmen and
chief executives of FTSE 100
companies being paid 100 times the pay
of their
average employees lecturing us on how we should run the country.
«In 1980 a
chief executive of a FTSE 100
company earned about 25 times the
average pay — the
average pay —
of his or her employees.
CEOs at top U.S.
companies earn an
average of $ 13.3 million per year (using 2004 — 2006 data), compared to $ 6.6 million for European
chief executives and $ 1.5 million for CEOs in Japan.