Think CEOs Are Overpaid? See How They Compare With Hollywood Celebs and Sports Stars
By: Wall Street Journal
May 17, 2019
Halfway through this season of “American Idol,” Katy Perry hit a milestone. That’s when her earnings as a judge on the ABC show surpassed what most chief executives in the S&P 500 made all of last year.
The Wall Street Journal this week released its annual analysis of CEO pay, which hit another post-recession record in 2018. But almost all of them are still looking up at radio host Howard Stern and basketball star Steph Curry.
To put executive pay in context, the Journal matched it up against earnings for highly paid professionals across a variety of fields, from sports and entertainment to finance and law.
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