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Monday, June 16, 2008
Do mega salaries make you green with envy?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The AJC has published a special feature about Georgia executive pay, which includes a gallery of the 20 highest-paid executives in Georgia for 2007. Not surprisingly, executives for Atlanta’s largest companies like Coca-Cola, Home Depot and Delta are well-represented on the list. The median top executive compensation for 2007 was a whopping $1,798,688. In case you were wondering, we’ll do the math for you- that’s 45 times more than what the average Georgia worker makes. If you want to check out how your own salary ranks, go directly to the Georgia Executive Pay interactive feature.
Of course, when you consider that Atlanta rappers Ludacris and T.I. each made $16 million in 2006 per Forbes Hip-Hop Cash Kings survey, and Atlanta Braves veteran slugger Chipper Jones is earning $15 million this season, the CEOs pay doesn’t seem as extreme.
When you learn how much CEOs, entertainers and sports figures are making, does it make you jealous? Do you think they deserve it or are these hefty salaries out-of-control, especially considering the current state of the economy?
