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Executive Compensation

Executive Compensation

Introduction
Executive compensation is presently a topic of concern. President Bush recently mentioned it during the most recent State of the Union address. The media frequently speaks of executives that are paid vast sums of money, showered with perks such as corporate jets, vacation homes, gifts, and staff positions for friends and family. Almost as frequent, we read of executives that fail to meet stockholders expectations but somehow manage to step down and depart with lucrative “exit packages”. In addition, it has been noted by analysts of “The Corporate Library,” CEO’s of Standard & Poor's 500 companies receive an average of $13.51 million in compensation per year. Based on our observations, the average CEO of our sample of the S&P 500 receives a comfortable $67 million in compensation per year.

Although a reasonable compensation system for executives and workers is fundamental, the past has seen record growth in compensation......


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