ceo salaries

Even as more Americans find themselves unemployed and struggling to make ends meet, new analysis shows chief executives at some of the nation's best-known companies are hauling in the dough. Outsized compensation at the upper echelons of U.S. companies is nothing new -- recall the outrage in 2003...

The amount of money that CEOs at big U.S. companies make has been the subject of controversy for years. As proxies come out, the numbers for base salaries, bonuses, and stock options get added up and then put on endless lists of who made what. As the market has fallen, stock options at most...