6.16.2011

All in a day's work

10 CEOs Who Earned a Year's Salary in an Hour - TheStreet

According to data compiled by the Institute for Policy Studies (made available on the AFL-CIO's Web site), the average American CEO earned 319 times the salary of the average U.S. worker in 2008. As hard as it is to believe, this pay ratio has dropped over the past decade -- in 2000, the average CEO earned 525 times the average worker's salary.

—Noted by our Midwest bureau; Click the link for the ten well-compensated names.

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