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.
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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
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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%.
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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
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A New Way To Be Underpaid
A little article I found on Forbes.com It explains how anyone can feel underpaid. Just depends on who you compare yourself to. And what method you use to calculate your true worth.
Here’s how it goes: General Electric (nyse: GE – news – people ) has about $750 billion in assets. If its CEO was paid like a hedge fund manager–who typically takes at least 1% of the assets and 20% or more of the profits–he would be paid $750 million–oops, it should be $7.5 billion!–just for showing up, plus a bonus if there was any profit. So what is GE chief Jeffrey Immelt doing being paid just $12.6 million
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