May 26, 2015
NPR Covers CEO Pay Story
– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com
Here’s a description of this recent NPR story:
CEO pay comes up a lot in the news. The stories often include someone complaining that it’s too high. Then there’s someone on the other side, defending CEO pay. But that’s usually that’s where the stories stop.
On today’s show: an actual story about CEO pay, with a beginning, middle, and an end. It’s the story of two guys who tried to cut the pay of the CEO at a small pneumatic tool company on Long Island.
Meanwhile, this Bloomberg piece entitled “Executive Pay Gluttony” covers some of the history of executive pay…