The Scruffy and the Stuffy Agree: Cap CEO Pay

From hiking trails in Oregon to boardrooms in Berlin, critics of our staggeringly unequal corporate order are calling for new limits that link executive compensation to worker paychecks.

Can We Get Tougher on Crime in the Suites?

Federal regulators have actually been cracking down lately on financial fraud. But the power-suited execs responsible for that fraud are still paying no personal price.

Will CEOs Outlast Our ‘Shareholder Spring’?

A string of surprising ‘say on pay’ votes has some executive pay critics sensing an impending revolution in corporate boardrooms. But that ‘revolution’ won’t amount to much until mainstream CEO pay reformers start factoring worker pay into the corporate compensation equation.

Executive Pay Scorecard for 2008

This table compares the various national, regional, and industry-wide pay reports released in 2009 on CEO pay for 2008.

Executive Pay Scorecard for 2010

This compilation of annual national, regional, and industry-wide corporate executive pay reports covers compensation collected in 2010.

Executive Pay Scorecard for 2009

Every spring, top U.S. media outlets and business research organizations release compensation surveys that detail executive pay levels over the preceding year. These surveys seldom sample the same corporations — or measure pay the exact same way — and, consequently, almost always generate somewhat different results. This Too Much table compares the various reports released in 2010 on CEO pay for 2009.

In a Crackpot Economy, Endless Jackpots

At what point will our world wake up to the fantastically rewarding scam that our hedge fund masters of the universe have been running?

Too Big to Fail: An Executive Suite Story

If a blunder you committed cost your employer $4 million, how long would you stay employed? In America today, a CEO can cost his company $4 billion and still collect both a paycheck and a bonus.

How Power Suits Subvert the Law of the Land

Lawmakers make laws. They don’t enforce them. Corporate America understands that difference — and exploits it with a relentless regularity. The latest case in point: the battle over outrageous CEO pay. Read more . . .

On Wall Street, Still Tis the Season to Be Jolly?

Financial industry insiders are grousing about a big downturn in annual bonuses. They should be thanking the rest of us — bombshell new research shows — for their continuing awesome good tidings.