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Are Corporate CEOs Earning Too Much Money?

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are not at all overpaid. Bibliography lists 5 sources. PGceopay.rtf ARE CEOs PAID OVERPAID? , November, 2001 for more information on using  this paper properly! One of the long-standing controversies in the workplace is the huge disparity between the compensation the chief executive officer (CEO) receives and the compensation the average  worker receives. In 2000, CEOs earned about 531 times the amount of the average worker in his or her company. In that same year, the average CEO of any major  corporation earned $20 million in compensation packages for the year. At the same time, "the Standard & Poor 500 Index fell 10 percent in 2000 and the NASDAQ Composite Index  fell 39 percent" (AFL/CIO, 2001). CEOs, on the average received a 22 percent increase in salary and bonuses and a 50 percent increase in stock options while the hourly worker  received an average increase of 3 percent in 2000. Salaried employees did not fare much better with only a 4 percent increase (AFL/CIO, 2001). The Los Angeles Business Journal  reported: "the most striking thing about the list of L.A.s most highly paid public company executives is how little relationship there is between a CEOs pay and the performance of  his or her company" (2000, p. 78). The article offered these examples, including that of Mark Goldston, CEO of NetZero, was paid $153 million for the year 2000 and the  company has never seen a profit. In fact, it looked like the company would be folding. The salary was on paper and there is no information to indicate whether or  not Goldston actually received that much (Los Angeles Business Journal, 2000). It would certainly seem, based on the former report, that CEOs are considerably overpaid but that is