01-04-2007, 02:36 AM
Quote:Crime may not pay, but being an executive in Canada certainly appears to.
By the time the average Canadian pulls it together and drags their hungover body to work on January 2nd, the country's highest-paid CEOs will have already earned more for the year than their annual salary.
The same goes for minimum-wage workers, except the people upstairs will have their annual $15,931 by the time the former gets out of bed.
According to a study released Tuesday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the 100 highest-paid private-sector executives will have pocketed $38,010 by 9:46 a.m. Tuesday.
Full article:
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_6583.aspx
UK CEO Earnings Raised In The Last Decade
Quote:Incomes Data Services, an independent research organisation providing information and analysis on pay, conditions, pensions, employment law and personnel policy and practice, advises that chief executives earned on average 98 times more than the average for all UK full-time workers.
The interesting part is that ten years ago the pay differential was 39 times that of the average worker.
Full article:
http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles...ecade.html