From Fox 5 DC: An annual report on compensation for corporate CEO’s finds that pay for top executives was more than double last year than in the 1990s, and quadruple the compensation rate of the 1980s. The Institute For Policy Studies says that CEOs who cut their company’s payrolls the most took home 42 percent more in pay last year than the average for top executives. Sarah Anderson, lead author of the latest Executive Excess report.