You don’t even know the data sources for those charts. You simply read them and took in the liberal talking points about it.
Here are the FACTS: Those reports took into account stock valuations as income. So Bill Gate’s salary was $240,000 but because his stock holdings went up they counted that. That isn’t money from the company, that is his stock increasing in value. I know that went over your head but the fact is Bill Gates was not paid 300+ times the average employee of his company. In fact, several people made more than he did. Typical liberal lying about the facts in that report.
“Typical liberal lying about the facts in that report.”
Total compensation includes the value of salary, bonus, and stock options given to the executive in a year. Stock options have value. If the company gives the CEO the right to buy a million shares of stock at $10.00 per share and the market price is $20 per share, that option has a real value of $10 million dollars ($10 x 1 million shares). Executives become extremely wealthy from stock options if the company performs. He receives the option from the company, it is part of his pay. When he exercises the option he gets a significant benefit. It is real income to him. How can you not count as compensation real economic value the executive receives from the company? If options are worthless as you infer, why would executives accept them?
Note, the value of options in a year does not count the increase in value of stock the executive already owns. It only counts the value of the new options he receives in the current year.
Most of the compensation for senior executives in public companies is realized from options and bonuses, not base salary.