2y ago

Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M — CEO to employee pay ratio hits 250 to 1

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Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M

Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M — CEO to employee pay ratio hits 250 to 1::Try to hold back your tears as CEO to employee pay ratio hits: 250 to 1

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Guess he has only been working 250x as hard as the other employees
- I closely work with the CEO at my organization and their whole job is decision making. If you have common sense then you can be a CEO
- Bullshit, so many things incorrect and nonsensical about what you just said.
OH NO! However will Mr. CEO survive on checks notes $48,000,000 annually. It's almost cruel to expect him to live on such a paltry figure.
Those cruel shareholders have no heart
/s in case it's not obvious
- It's not reversing. He didn't hit the right metrics to get the 50M he could be getting. He just didn't get his bonuses.
  He also froze employee wages a few months ago, thanks to inflation, if anything, it's set up to accelerate to get even worse.
I hope he can financially recover from this
- Not harder, but it’s also a matter of knowledge. You couldn’t take any person off the street and have them be a successful CEO tomorrow. Same with other specialized roles, like medical roles, some IT areas, rocketry, etc.
  That said, pay and benefits disparity is a real thing and I’d love to see it addressed. But what is reasonable to me may not be to others.
  
  You couldn’t take any person off the street and have them be a successful CEO tomorrow.
  Are you sure? Has anyone ever tried? Maybe we should do an experiment!
Nice hoodie Satya, bet it cost more than my annual salary.
Honestly this fixation on CEO salary is a bit silly, most of them are getting rich from stock, not salary.
- it is total compensation. His salary was "only" 2.5 million.
I'm really confused are they saying the median or mean salary is 200k?
- All benefits included that’s likely to be true. A starting software engineer job out of college hits over 100k$ in salary alone. It’s probably offset by administrative roles, but still you can get past 500k$ with ten to twenty years of experience. Not unheard that top employees will have compensations in the million.
  
  But is it the mean salary is 200k or the median because it can't be the lowest and usually the two are very far apart.

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