executive pay (enough already?)

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Every spring, top media outlets and business research organizations in the United States release compensation surveys that detail executive pay levels over the preceding year. These surveys seldom sample the same exact groups of corporations — or measure pay the exact same way — and, consequently, almost always generate somewhat different results. This Too Much table compares the various reports released so far in 2009 on CEO pay for 2008. Also available from Too Much: comparisons of the major CEO pay reports released in 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005. edit: important link

http://www.toomuchonline.org/ExecPayScoreboard.html

So What's New? Don't the Rich Always Get Richer?
Actually, no. A century ago, income in America skewed steeply toward the top, but in the mid 20th century the United States became significantly more equal, as data from economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty show here, before turning back toward greater inequality. Note: Saez and Piketty crunch their data from tax records. Congressional Budget Office researchers, as noted above, add in-kind income sources, including all forms of government assistance. That's why calculations of income shares can vary.