Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Environmental attorney Sanders says AFL-CIO has an interesting web site showing CEO salaries for publicly traded companies.

The AFL-CIO has an interesting database on the web that is culled from SEC filings for publicly traded companies in the U.S. called the Executive PayWatch Database. This database will provide with the following information on the CEO of companies work for or in which you hold stock:

What the CEO of your company took in last year.
How his/her pay package compares with yours, how long you would have to work to earn what the CEO gets in one year and the number of workers at your salary the CEO's compensation would support.
How his/her pay package compares with that of the average worker, a minimum wage earner and the president of the United States.
A fact sheet on all of these comparisons.

Check out the database.