Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Could It Be? An Actual Dent in C.E.O. Pay?


One could be excused for thinking that in addition to death and taxes, life’s certainties now included ever-rising pay for chief executives. But new data suggest that, wonder of wonders, some changes made after the corporate scandals at the turn of the latest century are having an effect.
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In the wake of the granddaddy of the scandals, the Enron meltdown, the Securities and Exchange Commission mandated, basically, that directors and executives could not be one big happy mutual-back-scratching club — that the people who set your pay, for example, can’t be people who work for you.

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