How many days in a year? Three hundred sixty five. How many worker salaries fit in one CEO's pay? Three hundred sixty four. Meaning that by the end of this day, there is a chance your CEO has made the equivalent of your yearly salary. He (less so she) is also making one of your year's salary on Saturdays and Sundays. Sweet!Indeed, the CEO-to-worker pay gap is enormous. According to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy, the average CEO of a large U.S. company made roughly $10.8 million last year, 364 times that of the average U.S. full-time and part-time worker salary of $29,544. Looking only at full-time workers, including benefits, CEOs made only 270 times the average $40,000 pay. But don't you worry about them, this still doesn't include perks and pension benefits CEOs get. If it sounds excessive, that's because it is, especially if you consider that in 1989 CEOs earned 71 times the average worker pay.
An interesting anecdote from this IPS/UFE report shows that the pay of the 20 top U.S. CEOs was 204 times that of the 20 highest paid U.S. military generals, 38 times that of the 20 highest-paid non-profit leaders, and three times that of the top 20 CEOs of European companies with higher sales than their U.S counterparts.
But the average Joe can gloat. Those CEOs who make your yearly salary in a day probably also feel on the short end of the stick when their salaries are compared to private equity and hedge fund managers pay. These guys made an average of $657.5 million in 2006, about 61 times the average CEO pay and more than 16,000 times the average full-time worker pay.
Let's see, with 31,556,926 seconds in a year, these managers make your yearly salary each half hour (roughly) that passes in a day -- including sleep time!
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