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CEO Pay More Than Doubled Last Year

September 2, 2010 · By Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson goes on Fox 5 DC to discuss the new Executive Excess report.

From Fox 5 DC: An annual report on compensation for corporate CEO's finds that pay for top executives was more than double last year than in the 1990s, and quadruple the compensation rate of the 1980s. The Institute For Policy Studies says that CEOs who cut their company's payrolls the most took home 42 percent more in pay last year than the average for top executives. Sarah Anderson, lead author of the latest Executive Excess report.

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Sarah Anderson
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Global Economy

Sarah Anderson is director of the Global Economy project at the Institute. She is also the coauthor of Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession.

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