Sounds too simplistic to me. If the scoolteachers mentioned invested in most of the companies mentioned, they would now be looking for second jobs to supplement their loses.

I was pleased to discover you were being sarcastic in your article. It's too bad the headline did not make that clear because too many will read the headline and not read the article. Thus, they will have implanted in their memories the notion that CEOs are underpaid.

The only solution I can see to the problem of CEOs pay is too return control of corporations to the stockholders. Give stockholders control of who sits on the board of directors and tie CEO compensation to actual performance. Get rid of the old boys network that currently sets CEO compensation.

It is past time for the United States Congress to set the record straight. Corporations are not human beings and, therefore, are entitled only to the rights granted to them in laws passed by Congress. They do not automatically enjoy human rights. Their right to advertise, to lobby Congress, etc. are only theirs to the extent the laws that establish corporations right to exist also establish their rights to advertise, etc. In other words, they exist at the pleasure of the Congress. The congress may change the terms of their right to exist at any time it chooses to do so.

Almost all CEOs are grossly over-onpaid with salary and perks. Example, Halliburton keeps a 102-foot yacht in the Florida Keys with fulltime captain PLUS a $1 million home for executives and wives to use on weekends.

What a gross misuse of corporate funds!

These CEOs are so self-centered and egomanical that they too would actually agree with your logic. Yes, I am undervalued to my business and shareholders...but only if they really understood me. The common denominator in all of these people is GREED! How much is enough? It is never enough for these types. What about the private planes; yatchts; seminars/conferences; free expense accounts; perks unlimited; and of course their A-list friends (US Senators/Reps.). Anyone for golf in Scotland this afternoon?

all I can say as you see it happening, they want more, but wait they want to layoff more workers, they dont care about investors, profits profits profits but they wear stupid across their forehead, the only wait to make a PROFIT, if there is ANYONE left to buy it, at the current wage and the doom and gloom of the economy, I see them crying at the golf course, we CANT make a profit what went wrong, DUH guess Stupid, only you have the money and your buddies to buy what you sell, enough said they went to the same school bush went the dunced class

If you examine the P&L of any Fortune 100 company what is clear is that salary and fringe are the largest expense component regardless of industry. No it's not premises, or advertising or R&D or whatever line item

Further, top management, lets say the 6% at the tip of the pyramid, TAKE ROUGHLT 50% OF THE SALARY !!!!

Hey, a**hole Board of Directors, want to have a dramatic cost reduction and see marginal impact on operations, get rid of half of these jerks.

Just keep the good ones, of which about half of them are. And tell the survivors that you have terrible news for them. "Hey Mr/Mrs managing director, your base will be reduced from $800 k to a paultry $500 k, AND if the company does well AND only if it does well, your bonus will not be 3X your base but a miserly 2X.

I guess we'll see a lot of management applying for food stamps and housing assistance. Yes, let's spread the joy evenly to all.

ALL these ceo's had
teachers ,so does that mean the teachers are way underpaid ore should the ceo'split there wages with the teachers that taught them.therefor the shareholders should thank the teachers!!!!!!!!!

No CEO of a publicly traded company is worth more than twice what the President of the U.S. makes, including stock options.

Really funny article. Thanks for posting.

One day CEO's will actually teach the rest of us what their work actually is other than lunch meetings at Le Cirque and being seen at Davos.