This is sad, but not new. It has been going on for many, many years. And the problem is even more distressing when the figures are compared and contrasted with the CEOs in other “developed” countries.
As reported in The Guardian today, US CEOs now make in pay 339 times the pay of the average worker according to a Bloomberg study of 225 companies. In retail companies, the ratio is 977 to 1 on average. Let that sink in a little.
A quote from the article entitled “‘CEOs don’t want this released’: US study lays bare extreme pay-ratio problem” by Edward Helmore is very revealing:
“According to a recent Bloomberg analysis of 22 major world economies, the average CEO-worker pay gap in the US far outpaces that of other industrialized nations. The average US CEO makes more than four times his or her counterpart in the other countries analyzed.”
Some people may push back and opine that US CEOs may be worth 4X that of their non-US industrialized nation counterparts. If that were true, it would be mean US company performance is 4X that of non-US companies…
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hughcurtler 
Reminds me of the dragon, Smaug, lying and half asleep on his stolen hoard. Then came that one true arrow… But then… the Elves, the Dwarves and the Humans decided to have a war over who would inherit Smaug’s loot. (The Hobbit, Tolkien) The more things change, the more they remain the same.
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