Pay Scaled
Another of those great NY Times graphics, this one showing the relative rise of CEO compensation in comparison to that of the average worker. Interestingly, from the mid-1940s to the mid-1980's top level executive compensation in comparison to workers remained about the same, around 50 to 60 times that of workers, and then it rose sharply to a massive peak in 2000 when the top executives were being paid over 700 times what the workers were, and has now dropped back a bit to just 350 times
