Money can, in fact, buy happiness: A much publicized 2010 study found that employees needed to earn $75,000 per year to feel fulfilled, and that each additional dollar above that wouldn’t make a difference. But according to more recent research from Matthew Killingsworth, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, there is no such…
As more states require companies to share information on salary transparency, the question of pay equity between executives and workers is being taken up by unions, shareholder activists, and researchers who question why CEO pay has ballooned in recent years. But the latest batch of executive compensation disclosures filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission…
“Fair” is a subjective term when it comes to compensation. Does someone whose leadership drives a company’s stock price to new heights deserve compensation that’s exponentially higher than the people working for him or her? Sometimes, perhaps. At some point, though, the ratio between pay for folks at the top of the org chart and…
In July of 2023, right before the start of the actors’ strike and more than two months into the Hollywood writers’ strike, Disney CEO Bob Iger was attending investment firm Allen & Company’s annual Sun Valley Conference, an event known as “summer camp for billionaires.” It was there—the same day it was announced that his…
Facebook’s parent company Meta and Google’s parent company Alphabet have collectively laid off thousands of employees till now. However, despite the mass layoffs, the companies were amongst the top three paying companies last year, a new report states. Meta and Alphabet amongst top payers According to a Business Insider report originally attributed to The Wall…
Facebook parent company Meta and Google parent company Alphabet were among the top three highest-paying public companies. Meta ranked second in terms of median salary, offering employees a median wage of nearly $3,00,000 (roughly Rs 2.46 crore), according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Alphabet followed closely behind at the third spot with…
In a year marked by tech layoffs and high inflation, competition for workers helped to lift paydays at most S&P 500 companies for the second straight year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Compensation for the median worker at 278 companies in the S&P 500 index was higher in 2022 than in the year…
Given rising layoffs and a stubbornly high inflation rate, you’d think companies would be pinching pennies on worker salaries these days. Yet the opposite is happening, according to a new study. In general, annual compensation (i.e., salary, bonuses, and benefits) rose higher in 2022 than in 2021 at 278 S&P 500 Index companies according to…
Nearly two-thirds of chief executives at S&P 500 firms earled less in 2022 than they were originally awarded, according to new data. …According to the Wall Street Journal, which analyzed data tabulated by public company intelligence provider MyLogIQ, while the lion’s share of S&P 500 CEOs lost money from when their pay was issued last…
The stock awards that Elon Musk got for running Tesla lost nearly $10 billion in value last year. Stock declines erased $237 million in compensation for Expedia’s boss and roughly $149 million for Amazon.com Chief Executive Andy Jassy. …The numbers show that in 2022 about two-thirds of the top executives at S&P 500 companies ended…