Shareholder advocates use executive compensation-to-employee-compensation ratios to try to shame executives. Executives at rivals point to them to try to extract a bigger comp package from their boards. The executives themselves no doubt use them for bragging rights at the country club. And still others will quibble with the numbers, claiming they either do or don't reflect actual value delivered.
Yet we do love them so. The latest executive pay ratio, brought to us by Payscale.com, compares total exec comp at publicly held companies to the average take-home pay of employees.
After Payscale sliced and diced the numbers, it popped out a list of the Top 5 CEOs with the highest CEO-to-worker pay ratios. The full list can be found here.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
