CEO Pay Levels Tracked Over The Past 15 Years

[DeSwiss]

CEO Pay Charts
CEO Pay, Stock Prices, Corporate Profits, Worker Pay, and Inflation, 1990-2005










Data Sources:
Total executive compensation: 2005 data based on Wall Street Journal survey, April 10, 2006; all other years based on similar sample in Business Week annual compensation surveys (now discontinued). Includes: salary, bonus, restricted stock, payouts on other long-term incentives, and the value of options exercised.

S&P 500 Index: Economic Report of the President, 2006 Table B-96; 1997, 2000 Table B-93; average of daily closing prices.

Corporate Profits: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Product Accounts, Table 6.16, with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments.

Average worker pay: Based on U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics Survey (average hourly earnings of production workers x average weekly hours of production workers x 52).

Minimum wage: Lowest mandated federal minimum wage, nominal; U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, Wage and Hour Division.

Adjustment for inflation: BLS, Average Annual CPI-U, all urban consumers, all items.

link: http://www.faireconomy.org/research/CEO_Pay_charts.html

[lligrd]

1. Love That Minimum Wage And Worker Pay Chart

Very telling!

[WiseButAngrySara]

4. That was dramatic for me too. ...n/t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. So...

When does the revolution start?

[WiseButAngrySara]

3. Are these graphs telling or what? America is in big

trouble.

[gravity]

5. The CEO's pay correlates with the stock market

It seems pretty fair to me since they are being paid based on their performance.

[DeSwiss]

6. I Love Satire...

:P