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- Subject: The Decline of U.S. Labor Movement (II)
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- S A L A R I E S A N D V A C A T I O N S
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- - We're Number One in executive salaries.
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- - We're Number One in inequality of pay.
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- American chief executives make about twice as much as their counterparts
- abroad and twenty-five times more than the average American worker--the
- largest ratio of any of the nineteen major industrial nations. Average
- remuneration (salary, benefits, holdings, etc.) for a Japanese CEO is
- $371,800, less than half that of the average American CEO, $747,500.
- France's top executives are a distant second with an average remuneration
- of $448,500.
-
- Salary differences are even more stark among chief executives at the top
- thirty companies in respective nations: Americans make $3.2 million on
- average, compared to S1.1 million in the United Kingdom, $800,000 in France
- and Germany, and $500,000 in Japan. While high executive salaries were once
- the pride of corporate America, the top-heavy pay structure is drawing
- criticism from many in the industry. "It's typical of what's wrong with
- American management," says one executive, "and why the U.S. is not more
- competitive economically."(48)
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- Average remuneration of chief executive officers (CEOs), and
- CEO remuneration as a multiple of average manufacturing
- employee remuneration, 1991:(49)
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- CEO SALARIES RATIO: CEO
- COUNTRY (U.S. DOLLARS) TO WORKER
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- United States $747.500 25
- France 448,500 16
- Switzerland 424,100 11
- Italy 421,300 14
- Canada 407,600 12
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- United Kingdom 399,600 16
- Belgium 397,300 13
- Spain 380,600 15
- Japan 371,800 11
- Germany 364,500 10
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- Sweden 335,600 10
- Netherlands 297,900 10
- Australia 271,300 14
- Ireland 156,500 8
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- Source: Worldwide Total Remuneration 1991 (Valhalla N.Y.: Towers Perrin,
- 1991), pp. 12, 22.
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- Sorted by best-to-worst CEO-to-worker radio:
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- CEO SALARIES RATIO: CEO
- COUNTRY (U.S. DOLLARS) TO WORKER
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- Ireland 156,500 8
- Germany 364,500 10
- Netherlands 297,900 10
- Sweden 335,600 10
- Japan 371,800 11
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- Switzerland 424,100 11
- Canada 407,600 12
- Belgium 397,300 13
- Australia 271,300 14
- Italy 421,300 14
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- Spain 380,600 15
- France 448,500 16
- United Kingdom 399,600 16
- United States $747.500 25
-
- Source: Worldwide Total Remuneration 1991 (Valhalla N.Y.: Towers Perrin,
- 1991), pp. 12, 22.
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-
- >From Page 101
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- _We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New
- World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.
-
- New York, May 1992.
-
- Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
- $10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- [Transcribed by jhwoodar@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Woodard)]
-
- ``America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.
- This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The
- facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But
- ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation.''
-
- -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations
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