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May 26, 2016

CEO pay in 2015: When a $468,449 raise is typical

  • The raise alone for median CEO pay last year, $468,449, is more than 10 times what the typical U.S. worker makes in a year.
    • By STAN CHOE
    AP Business Writer

    NEW YORK — CEOs at the biggest companies got a 4.5 percent pay raise last year. That's almost double the typical American worker's, and a lot more than investors earned from owning their stocks — a big fat zero.

    The typical chief executive in the Standard & Poor's 500 index made $10.8 million, including bonuses, stock awards and other compensation, according to a study by executive data firm Equilar for The Associated Press. That's up from the median of $10.3 million the same group of CEOs made a year earlier.


     
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