Raking It All In: America's CEO's Are Living Bigger and Fatter Than Ever

The average pay of a customer account specialist at cable giant Comcast is $13.26 an hour while Comcast CEO Brian Roberts pocketed $31.4 million in 2013 – more than a thousand times that salary.

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Dashing Toward Oligarchy, Government Is Now a Protection Racket For the 1%

A new report shows that top C.E.O.'s were paid 331 times more than the average U.S. worker in 2013, and the poorest fifth of Americans paid twice the average tax rate as the richest 1%.

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466 Hours of Worker Overtime Equals One Hour of CEO Pay

CEOs earn 874 times more per hour than a sales associate.

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Dodd-Frank Action: SEC To Require Transparency On CEO/Employee Pay Gap

The Securities and Exchange Commission will soon follow through with an executive pay transparency requirement as part of the Dodd-Frank law, requiring Fortune 500 companies to publish comparative salaries of its CEOs and average workers.

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Executive Excess 2013: Bailed Out, Booted and Busted

Nearly 40 percent of the highest-paid CEOs in recent decades eventually needed to be rescued, fired or jailed. This analysis reveals widespread poor performance within America’s elite CEO circles.

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U.S. Executive Pay Soars As "The Outrageous Has Become the Everyday"

According to figures released last week, 38% of the top-paid CEOs of U.S. companies over the past two decades were fired or headed companies that were either bailed out by taxpayers or forced to pay significant fraud-related fines.

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CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law

Almost three years after Congress ordered public companies to reveal actual CEO-to-worker pay ratios under the Dodd-Frank law, the numbers remain unknown.

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Study Busts Myth Corporations Use to Justify Skyrocketing CEO Pay

CEO pay has increased 725 percent over three decades while worker pay has essentially remained flat.

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