executive pay
Top brass earnings
Executive pay is the total compensation given to top corporate leaders—salary, bonuses, stock options, and other benefits.
The term often appears in debates about income inequality, where critics argue executive pay has grown disproportionately compared to average worker wages: Executive pay at major corporations has risen 1,000% since 1978.
- salaryFixed periodic employment payment
- base salaryGuaranteed regular compensation
- annual bonusPeriodic employee compensation supplement
- pay equityEqual pay for equal work
- board of directorsGoverning body of organization
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- public paysalary, gross pay, net pay, pay, pay grades
- wage datawage rates, wage levels, pay rates, pay scales, pay grades
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executive payhourly wages
Pay based on hours
hourly pay · unpaid labor · subsistence wages · sweat equity
executive payliving wage
Income covering necessities
poverty wages · starvation wages · worker compensation · subsistence wages · fair wages
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