Why American CEOs Aren’t Paid Enough
5 min readFeb 23, 2020
How the ordinary person fails to understand the enormous pressures that come with being at the very top of the heap.
Most people are aware that American, and specifically US, CEOs are paid quite handsomely. Few, however, know just how rich the CEO pot has become.
Data released by the Economic Policy Institute show that in 1965 the ratio of CEO pay to average salary was 20:1…