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CEOs Get Paid Too Much, According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World

Harvard Business Review

While the estimated pay ratios Kiatpongsan and Norton found did differ based on, say, political leanings, the ideal pay ratios were similar across the board: Note, for example, that respondents who “strongly agreed” that differences in income were too large estimated a much larger pay gap between CEOs and unskilled workers (12.5:1)

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Is Your CEO’s High Salary Scaring Away Customers?

Harvard Business Review

According to the AFL-CIO , the actual number is closer to 331 to 1 in the United States (most other developed countries have lower ratios than the U.S., Finally, different political and economic beliefs among consumers could also change their willingness to buy. but are still higher than the ideal).

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