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March 3, 2021
Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, was paid $280 million in 2019. That is 1,085 times the compensation of the average Alphabet employee (about $258,000) and according to an analysis published on Feb. 24 by As you Sow, a shareholder advocacy organization way too much.
Pichai, whom As You Sow claims was overpaid by nearly $268 million, topped the group’s annual list of the most overpaid CEOs of companies in the S&P 500. As You Sow, based in Berkeley, California, hopes to leverage the power of shareholders to direct companies toward corporate social responsibility and environmentally sustainable actions.
As You Sow assesses CEO pay based on a series of parameters, including the ratio between CEO compensation and the median worker’s, the percentage of shareholders that voted in favor or against the CEO compensation package, and whether proxy advisors (companies that advise institutional shareholders on how to vote) were in favor of the c
John C. Plant: Howmet Aerospace
Robert Iger: Walt Disney Company
Miguel Patricio: Kraft Heinz
Alan B. Miller: Universal Health Services
Sheldon Adelson: Las Vegas Sands Corporation.
Lachlan Murdoch: Fox Corporation
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The CEOs of those three companies have been paid more than $744 million in three years, even though the businesses have consistently underperformed financially, the study said. Amid a global pandemic that decimated the economy, billionaires CEOs among them have seen their wealth skyrocket, said former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich in a statement on the new study. Meanwhile, as this report notes, worker wages now represent a lower share of the economy than almost any time since the 1940s, he added. This crisis of inequality makes action on CEO pay all the more important.
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As she campaigned to keep her seat, Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia aligned herself with President Trump.Credit.Brynn Anderson/Associated Press
Now what?
Andrew here. As companies across the U.S. condemn the attack on the Capitol and try to distance themselves from Republicans who challenged the election result, one may have a harder time than most separating itself from the controversy: Intercontinental Exchange, or ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange.
Its C.E.O. is Jeffrey Sprecher, who is married to Senator Kelly Loeffler, the Georgia Republican who lost her seat in last week’s runoff election. Ms. Loeffler ran as an unabashed supporter of President Trump, and up until the mob stormed the Capitol she planned to object to the Electoral College count. She “was one of the loudest amplifiers of falsehoods about supposed voter fraud in Georgia,” according to NPR. “Election administrators there begged for weeks for officials to stop sharing such c