Quick Summary As part of our July 2019 Review, Jon Salmon delves into the arguments surrounding the bad press of CEO pay.
15 min ReadWhy does CEO pay get such a bad press?
What’s included in the article?
- The wider arguments circling CEO pay, beyond the headlines
- How journalists and politicians have been convinced by flawed analysis
- Worker representation on boards
Journalists and then politicians have been convinced by flawed analysis, and then repeated the myths that executive pay is out of control and there being a lack of correlation between executive pay and listed company performance.