$1-a-year CEOs - Making it Up with Stock and Perks!
The heads of Apple, Capital One, DreamWorks and Google each collect a
salary of just $1 a year, bucking the trend of digging for a bigger CEO
pay packet - the $1 million a year the typical CEO can get, reports
USA Today. While some experts laud CEOs for
making an important symbolic statement with their $1-a-year salaries,
others take a more cynical view.
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Chief executive officer departures announced in
February jumped 11.4% to 124 from the 114 announced in January. The February figure was 13.4% higher than the
112 CEO changes in February 2006, according to Challenger, Gray &
Christmas survey data.
The average total cash and stock-based pay for the 13,000 directors of nearly 1,500 companies on Standard
& Poor's indexes rose 11.6% to $160,493 in 2006, on increased
workloads and responsibilities of Sarbanes-Oxley, according to Institutional
Shareholder Services.
In
January, U.S. 
There
has been a lot of discussion about the astonishing pay bonanza for
corporate executives. In a special report on executive pay in the latest
issue of the Economist magazine, Edward Carr explains why most of them deserved it.
Here is a compendium of revealing stats on executive pay.
The
latest BusinessWeek magazine cover
story on "Beyond the Green Corporation" highlights how eco-friendly
and socially responsible practices actually help a company's bottom
line. Here are some key factoids on how it stacks up.
