2014 New York Times 100 Highest-Paid CEOs

[RockaFowler]

http://www.equilar.com/nytimes/the-new-york-times-100-highest-paid-ceos

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Lawrence J. Ellison

CEO

Oracle

$78.4M


Ellison makes $40 million more than the next top CEO!! WTF?!?!
These are outrageous numbers.

[otohara]

1. Gross-ly Overpaid Narcissists

there's not enough hours in the day to justify that kind of pay.

[former9thward]

2. Along with CEOs there should be a list of actors and athletes and their salaries.

They are even more outrageous.

[RockaFowler]

3. It's almost the same

http://www.therichest.com/expensive-lifestyle/money/forbes-highest-earning-actors/

Tom Cruise is not worth that AT ALL

This is from 2012, but boy those are outrageous numbers, too

[former9thward]

5. No question.

I don't pretend to know how to narrow the range between top and bottom --- almost all suggestions seem to have legal or practical problems -- but I do know it would have to apply to all, if it was going to be successful.

[winter is coming]

4. Is there really anyone whose labor is worth tens of millions of dollars per year?

Especially when you consider that some of our hardest working people are the ones slogging away in minimum wage jobs?

[MohRokTah]

6. The entirety of global corporations is a mess of incestuous nepotism and "good ole boys" networks.

It's a club, and you and I aren't in it.

[Silent3]

7. There are obviously many, many CEOs who make more than $1.00/year...

...so what exactly is the logic for how these 100 CEOs were chosen, then ranked by pay, with Google's Lawrence Page at the bottom with a dollar per year, still somehow making it into the supposed top 100? Even Warren Buffet's nominal salary of $485,606 has got to be well below the top 100 of all CEOs if ranked by nominal salary alone.

Of course, most of these guys make way, WAY more money via bonuses and stock options, but it's not clear if and how such things figure into the 100 names they decided to list and rank.

[moondust]

8. They're all readily disposable.

You could probably replace every one of them overnight with a hungry business major from India and nothing would change significantly--at a fraction of the cost.

Oracle is still around?

[RockaFowler]

9. I was wondering that too

Oracle??