[In 2002, the average CEO compensation package equaled $10.83 million according to The New York Times. While pay cuts for the most richly rewarded CEOs reduced the size of the average compensation package, most CEOs actually got pay raises. Median CEO pay increased by 6 percent in 2002more than twice the growth of workers' paychecks. And while shareholdersincluding workers who depend on the stock market for their retirement savings and pensionshave lost $7 trillion since the stock market peak, todays CEO pay packages are roughly equal to their pre-bear market levels.] ~ snip
I'm all for people making lots and lots of money, but the argument that employers don't have "enough" money is a big, smelly pile of poo. Rewarding chicklet toothed jackholes for losing shareholders pension money is a crime against humanity and common sense.