CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law

[marmar]

(Bloomberg) Former fashion jewelry saleswoman Rebecca Gonzales and former Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson have one thing in common: J.C. Penney Co. (JCP) no longer employs either.

The similarity ends there. Johnson, 54, got a compensation package worth 1,795 times the average wage and benefits of a U.S. department store worker when he was hired in November 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Gonzales’s hourly wage was $8.30 that year.

Across the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of companies, the average multiple of CEO compensation to that of rank-and-file workers is 204, up 20 percent since 2009, the data show. The numbers are based on industry-specific estimates for worker compensation.

Almost three years after Congress ordered public companies to reveal actual CEO-to-worker pay ratios under the Dodd-Frank law, the numbers remain unknown. As the Occupy Wall Street movement and 2012 election made income inequality a social flashpoint, mandatory disclosure of the ratios remained bottled up at the Securities and Exchange Commission, which hasn’t yet drawn up the rules to implement it. Some of America’s biggest companies are lobbying against the requirement. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-30/ceo-pay-1-795-to-1-multiple-of-workers-skirts-law-as-sec-delays.html

[jtuck004]

1. Which is why I think it is less important to worry about voting than to spend time

learning about business and how to gain assets.

Because with money I can buy more politicians than one can garner votes any day of the week. Ask any hungry person who has lost their Meals-On-Wheels while politicians and business people don't have to wait in lines at airports.

[Fuddnik]

2. And, they'll listen to you too.

I recall some conversations I've had with my Congressmen and Senators. It's like "Why am I wasting my time on you".