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To: SauronOfMordor
Because there aren't that many CEOs, but lots of teachers. The total money paid to the CEOs of the Fortune 500 is much mess than the total compensation of millions of members of the education establishment.

Like just about everyone else here, you have missed my point.

A CEO is in a closed market like teachers. If the teacers negotiate a larger salary they are impeached. If a CEO is handed a large salary everone compliments him on his windfall. There is clearly a double standard of perspective.

58 posted on 06/17/2006 6:07:05 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: raybbr
A CEO is in a closed market like teachers. If the teacers negotiate a larger salary they are impeached. If a CEO is handed a large salary everone compliments him on his windfall. There is clearly a double standard of perspective.

I disagree - the two markets are NOT similar. Teachers (generally) negotiate their salaries as a union, meaning that the benefits negotiated by the whole are applied to each member, regardless of their indicidual merit. The CEO must negotiate for himself, individually. If there were individual teachers negotiating high compensation based on superior performance, I would see the two as similar. That, in general, is not the case.

Just my $.02.

BTW - I agree that most CEOs are overpaid, but that is based on my estimate of their value to the company. I do not own their company, so therefore I get no vote on their salary. It's just the way it is.

427 posted on 06/18/2006 11:55:55 AM PDT by MortMan (Trains stop at train stations. On my desk is a workstation...)
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