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¶ … Executive Compensation
Sometimes it seems that the salaries executives make at big corporations are entirely out of proportion with the value added to the firm by their being on the payroll. It makes sense that if someone, anyone, makes a certain wage, then they should be making at least that much money for the company. If someone is pumping gas for $7/hr, then he should be pumping at least $7 worth of gas every hour. If someone else is making $30 million/year at a big corporation, then he should be bringing in at least that much revenue, even if only indirectly. If a $30 million/year executive starts programs at the company that make $100million, then the $30million the company pays him is well-worth it. The trouble is that it is sometimes hard to decide the degree to which company performance is the result of an exec's contribution.
If we cannot establish with any degree of certainty the relationship between company success and executives' efforts, one thing we can establish with absolute certainty: if the company tanks, it is upper management that takes the blame. Partly for this reason, executive compensation packages can be ridiculously lucrative; execs get lavishly rewarded for good performance so that, if they are wise with what they have earned, they can survive once their reputations have been ruined by a messy dismissal, such as one-time stock market darling Mel Karmazin, sent packing by Viacom just this year (Kadlec, et al., 2004). I would like to spend...
In 2003, Dow Jones' chairman and CEO William Stavropoulos earned almost $17 million (Plishner, 2004). Rueben Mark, of Colgate Palmolive, made almost $148 million dollars in 2003 (Keep in mind that the President of the United States earns $400,000 annually.
For all practical purposes, a bonus is a one-time increase in annual pay. Michael S. Dell, CEO of Dell, Inc. received a $2.5 million bonus in 2003, and Deere & Co. CEO Robert Lane's compensation package included a bonus of $1.4 million; but the winner last year was Michael Eisner, of Disney, whose 2003 bonus tipped the scales at $6.3 million. In these executive's cases, their directing boards voted to give them these lavish gifts as rewards for such things as increased revenues and rising stock prices. But it works the other way too; Silicon Graphics lost almost $130 million in 2003, and its board of directors voted CEO Robert Bishop's $370,000 bonus into thin air (Lavelle, et all, 2004).
Another form of compensation, perquisites, or "perks" for short, typically includes such…
References
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