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CEO Pay 2008 (NYTimes)

Catherine — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:07:44 +0000

Interactive graphics from The Pay at the Top – The New York Times

Rise of CEO pay vs their stock price in 2007

Catherine — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:56:36 +0000

From the New York Times an interactive graphic which allows you to look up the CEO pay in 2007 and compare it to the change in their company’s stock price (by Vu Nguyen, Kurl Russell, Tom Jackson). I took screenshots for 4 tech CEOs: Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Size of the orange circle is the CEO’s compensation. Keep in mind this does not include the increase value of stock options they currently own.

{Click on the image to take a closer look}

[tags]CEO pay[/tags]

Forbes 500 Female CEO Pay 2006

Catherine — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:29:58 +0000

Forbes’ ranking of CEO pay includes the 12 women running a Forbes 500 company. Unlike the highest paid female executives graph I posted earlier this one is not necessarily the highest paid female CEOs just women who are CEOs of companies in the Forbes 500.

I added the graph to my Income and Wealth Swivel group.

[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality, women, executive income[/tags]

Highest Paid Female Executives in 2005

Catherine — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:45:19 +0000

Fortune’s ranking of America’s leading businesswomen includes the top 10 ranked by pay. Unlike the men where 8 out of 10 of the highest-paid executives are CEOs, only 5 of the top 10 women are chief executives. Also the number 1 ranked woman (at 26.1 million) makes less than the 10th ranked man (48 million).

I added the graph to my Income and Wealth Swivel group.

[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality, women, executive income[/tags]

NYTimes: More Than Ever, It Pays to Be the Top Executive

Catherine — Sat, 26 May 2007 05:09:04 +0000

The New York Times had a graph on executive income for the article More Than Ever, It Pays to Be the Top Executive that shows the growing income gap between chief executives and their top subordinates. The article goes on to mention this “winner take all” behavior can be found in other industries like sports and entertainment. You can see more examples of this in the following graphs:

Highest Paid CEOs
Highest Paid CEOs vs Hedge Fund Managers
US Income Distribution
Highest Paid Athletes
Highest Paid Celebrities
Income/GDP Ratio
Income share going to the top 5%

[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality[/tags]

Highest Paid CEOs vs Hedge Fund Managers

Catherine — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:11:27 +0000

A couple of Swivel graphs, comparing the top 5 highest paid CEOs vs the top 5 highest paid Hedge Fund Managers. It turns out the highest paid CEO, Steve Jobs, made less than Steven Cohen who was the 5th ranked hedge fund manager.

Here is the total income of the top 5 CEOs vs the top 5 Hedge Fund Managers:

I added the graphs to my Income and Wealth on Swivel group.

[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality, Swivel, Hedge Fund Managers, CEOs, super rich[/tags]

Highest Paid CEOs 2005

Catherine — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:43:26 +0000

Another Swivel graph, this time of the highest paid CEOs using the CEO Pay list on Forbes.com. I added the first 100 to the data set on Swivel but the graph just shows the top 20. Also, I added the graph to my Income and Wealth group. When you are looking at the CEOs high incomes you should keep in mind that the top hedge fund managers earn more than the highest paid CEOs, which you can see on an earlier graph I made.

[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality, Swivel, CEO income, CEO, super rich[/tags]

2005 US Income Distribution part 3

Catherine — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:22:36 +0000

I went back to my 2005 US Income Distribution graph but this time I looked at the income of everyone above $250,000. Although one can find lists of high income earners it is very difficult to find a graph plotting their earnings as compared to everyone else. The scale of the graph is so extreme that most of the population ends up looking like a dot at the bottom of the graph.

Below I have created 3 graphs that try to show the relationship between the bottom 99.99% and the top 0.01%.

{Click on each graph to take a closer look}

The original Census data can be found at Table HINC-06. Income Distribution to $250,000 or More for Households

The bottom 99.99% I estimated from data found at Emmanuel Saez’s web site

The CEO and Celebrity income estimates came from Forbes magazine

And finally the income for the top hedge fund managers was first published at Alpha magazine but I found it via the New York Times

See Also: Part 1 and Part 2
[tags]US Income Distribution, High Income, Census Income, Income Inequality [/tags]

CEO Median Compensation in 2004 ($14m)

Catherine — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:53:54 +0000

From a USA Today article

CEOs pulled in median compensation of about $14 million in 2004, up 25% from 2003, according to a USA TODAY analysis of the largest public companies filing annual proxies through March 25. Compensation includes salary, bonus, incentives, stock awards, stock-option gains and potential returns from fresh option grants. Data were provided by executive-pay-tracker eComp Data Services.

If you remember from my post on the income reported by President and Vice President, $14 million is greater than both of them put together. Also this means that over half of the CEOs of the largest public companies are in the Top 0.01%.

[tags] CEO compensation [/tags]

Highest paid CEO in 2004

Catherine — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:29:43 +0000

A list of highest paid CEOs, according to Forbes, based on their salary and bonus, vested restricted stock grants and the value realized from exercising stock options during the just-concluded fiscal year.

The number 1 CEO is:

Terry S Semel
Total Compensation: $230.6 mil (#1)
Terry S Semel has been CEO of Yahoo (YHOO) for 4 years. Mr. Semel has been with the company for 4 years . The 62 year old executive ranks 1 within Software & Services