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If theres one thing that gets people more upset than high CEO pay, its when companies pay CEOs absurdly more than rank-and-file employees. Many big companies pay their CEOs 100 or even 300 times more than their typical workers. But the Wall Street Journal reports that one firm based in Ohio paid its CEO a whopping 935 times more than its median worker last year.
The company in question is Marathon Petroleum Corp., the second-largest oil refiner in the U.S., which paid CEO Gary Heminger $19.7 million last year. That is obviously an awful lot of money. Still, Heminger wasnt even in the top 100 highest-paid CEOs in a recent list published by the AFL-CIO.
How, then, did Marathon Petroleum wind up with what the Journal called one of the biggest contrasts in CEO-to-worker pay? The landmark Dodd-Frank requires that public companies disclose their CEO-to-median-employee pay ratio to the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a firms ratio can be enormous if the CEO makes a fortune, the workers are paid a pittance, or both.
Marathon Petroleums ratio appears to extraordinarily high because many employees are part-timers at its Speedway gas station and convenience stores. Overall, median pay for Marathon workers appears to be about $21,000 per year, or more than 900 times less the companys CEO. But if you exclude the Speedway workers, median pay at Marathon goes up to nearly $126,000 per year, according to the Journal, for a CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 156:1.
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(51,582 posts)be common practice with the majority of CEOs. The 1% gets richer...American oligarchs own the country. Mueller is finding out that international oligarchs own the world and the politicians. He has his work cut out for him.