[the_devils_advocate_666]

If Tiger Woods or other professional athletes and entertainers can earn tens of millions of dollars why aren’t intelligent heads of large business not also entitled to that sort of pay?

[LowCountryJoe]

Because, according to The Huck, they’re just not. Look, if I believe — hypothetically as a member of the board of directors of a company — that one particular CEO’s presence within our company, through his/her direction and strategic thinking, would net the company an additional $25 million or more in revenue [enough to generate even just a one dollar increase in my after-tax net profits], I hire him or her for $20 million. It is that simple!

[UCFRoadWarrior]

“If Tiger Woods or other professional athletes and entertainers can earn tens of millions of dollars why aren’t intelligent heads of large business not also entitled to that sort of pay?”

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Tiger and a lot of rich celebs make big money for a lot of other people. There isnt a CEO that makes its company more money than the big celeb endorssers do

Its nuts for any company to pay a CEO a huge salary, esp if the company doesnt make a profit.

Who do you think is more important to their company...Rush Limbaugh or the CEO of Premiere/Clear Channel? Who do you think makes more money for the comapny....Rush or the CEO? At 25 million per year...Rush is underpaid (and I am not figuring in the billions many have made off the sales of AM radio stations...which were dead in the water before Rush became big)

I cannot understand the fascination of people who support big CEO pay. They are just another employee of a company...and usually a very expensive and profit-killing one.