Executive Excesses

In an article available at SocialFunds.com, outsized CEO salaries are put into perpective in an article called "The Ratio of Greed: Numbging Numbers of Executive Excess."

Among the key metrics cited:

• CEO-to-worker pay: 411-to-1
• Since 1990 (adjusted for inflation): CEO pay rose almost 300 percent, profits increased a little over 100 percent; average worker pay rose 4 percent; the minimum wage decreased almost 10 percent
  
• If average workers had experienced the same raises as CEO's, they would be making $108,000 intead of $28,000 and minimum wage would be $22.61 instead of $5.15.