Executive Excess 2023
New report finds the ‘Low-Wage 100’ large corporations have spent more than $340 billion on stock buybacks since 2020.
A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?
A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?
Before COB on the First Workday of 2023, CEOs Will Make More Than the Average Annual Pay for All US Workers
Before happy hour, the typical CEO will have pocketed more than home health aides, firefighters, pre-K teachers, and other workers will make the whole year.
The Huge Pay Gaps at Low-Wage Federal Contractors
New federal contracting standards could incentivize corporations to narrow the economic divides that undermine employee morale and business effectiveness.
A Senator Against CEOs Making Over 50 Times What Workers Make Now Has a Gavel
And that senator is using his gavel to boost a bill that ups taxes on firms that pay executives outrageously more than their workers.
Support the Women’s World Cup Team
The U.S. women’s soccer team outperforms its male counterpart but earns less — like women in every other field.
Big Pay Gaps Are Bad for Business
Would you do your best work for a CEO who pulls in 5,000 times your own salary?
No CEO Should Earn 1,000 Times More Than a Regular Employee
Employees of at least five U.S. corporations would have to work more than a millennium to catch up with their CEO.
Remembering the Insider Who Blew the Whistle on Corporate Greed
Graef Crystal proved that corporations won’t police themselves. Maybe good policies can.
This Trump Appointee Says He’s Standing Up for ‘Bullied’ CEOs
Fortune 500 chiefs make twice as much in a month as U.S. workers make in a decade. But any move to require corporations to document that disparity would be shameful, a new Trump appointee argues.
Treasury Secretary Nominee Steven Mnuchin Pulls an Old Trick on CEO Pay Questions
Overpaid CEOs make everybody’s blood boil. But the minute you suggest there might be a responsible role for policymakers in addressing the problem, watch out.
This City Just Came Up With a Novel Way to Fight Inequality. It Starts With Bold Grassroots Action.
Portland, Oregon has just adopted the first tax penalty on corporations that pay their CEOs more than 100 times what they pay typical workers.
Portland Could Be the First City to Tax Corporations With Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps
At a city council hearing, economic justice advocates helped build momentum behind CEO pay reform.
The Bad News about Good Census Numbers
Despite better numbers, the latest census data leaves much to be desired for closing the racial wage, wealth, and opportunity gaps in the United States.
SEC Issues Strong Rule on CEO-Worker Pay Gaps
IPS executive compensation experts available to comment on SEC rule released today.