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Sony (NYSE: SNE) CEO Sir Howard Stringer spends his time jet setting among his offices and homes in Tokyo, New York, and his native Wales. Sony has lost money two years in a row as he has made his...
Most adults in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia are aware of pay inequality. The does not seem to help women get equal pay with men. Recent Census data shows that female workers in the US make at...
Imagine the government and taxpayers finally being out of AIG… Who doesn’t love to hate AIG?  The financial crisis and the bailouts might have been much different had American International...
The top five officers at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (NYSE: WMT) made $65 million in aggregate in the company’s fiscal year ending January 31. Shareholders did not do quite as well. Wal-Mart shares rose...
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal each published their list of the compensation packages of the CEOs of the 200 largest companies, although each defined this group differently.  Some of...
According to the annual Wall Street Journal report on the median compensation of the CEOs at America’s 200 larges companies by revenue, their median comp was $6.95 million in 2009. And,...
Gannett (GCI) is part of the crumbling newspaper industry. It has not gotten its online properties to nearly match the revenue of its traditional print operations, so the firm is still shrinking and...
Timothy Cook, Apple’s (AAPL) COO, who sat in while Steve Jobs was away ill, made a bonus valued at $22 million for his work. The bonus was awarded on March 10 and is discretionary, which means...
Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit, recently hailed for turning the bank around after over a year of being blamed for its demise, only made $128,751 last year in total compensation, down from $38.2...
The International Brotherhood of Electric Workers, a shareholder in Goldman Sachs (GS), filed a lawsuit in Delaware which accuses the investment bank of overpaying its management and bankers. The...
The outrage over investment bank salaries has just begun to die. Many financial firm CEOs and senior managers took less pay than they have in recent years, and took a larger percent of their payouts...
Not many company boards admit when their CEO had a bad year and needs a cut in pay. The Coca-Cola (KO) board decreased chief Mahtar Kent’s total compensation to $18.8 million from $22.4 million in...
Jeff Immelt, GE’s Chairman and CEO did not take a bonus for 2009. That did not keep the rest of the conglomerate’s management from becoming richer. The #1 Thing to Do Before You Claim Social...
Google (GOOG)  disclosed that Chairman & CEO Eric Schmidt and founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page will each be paid $1 in base salary for 2010 in an 8-K filing.  Brin is Google’s President,...
Robert J. Stevens, the CEO of Lockheed Martin (LMT) made $23 million last year, according to the company’s proxy. Part of his compensation included use of corporate aircraft for personal reasons....