The survey showed that the top 100 highest-paid CEOs saw a 7.7 percent increase in pay last year.

Pictured is Prologis CEO Hamid Moghadam.

(Bloomberg)

[Financial Channel/Comprehensive Report] Although the Fed’s interest rate hike has impacted the overall environment, and many American companies have laid off employees one after another, according to the latest survey by the research company Equilar, the top 100 CEOs (CEOs) with the highest salaries of listed companies in the United States last year, Median pay rose 7.7 percent to a record $22.3 million (approximately NT$680 million).

"Reuters" quoted the report as saying that companies that have significantly raised salaries include the CEOs of investment bank Jefferies Group and logistics real estate company Prologis. The reason for the increase in CEO compensation is stock awards. Retain senior leadership and look forward to leading the company through this difficult period.

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Among them, Jefferies CEO Richard Handler's salary increase was the largest, with a salary of US$56.9 million (about NT$1.7 billion) last year, almost twice that of 2021; Prologis CEO Hamid Moghadam's salary was US$48.2 million (about NT$1.4 billion) last year. ), which also increased by 93% compared with the previous year.

However, on the contrary, although the lack of work has promoted the rapid growth of American labor wages, according to the statistics of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the average weekly income of American workers in December last year increased by 3.6% compared with last year. CPI) 7.1%, or March CPI 5%, the CEO’s salary increase exceeds the inflation rate, but the increase in labor wages is likely to be eaten up by high inflation.

In addition, the report pointed out that the median salary ratio of CEOs is 288 times the median salary of employees, which is higher than the 254 times in 2021, reflecting the two conditions in the era of inflation.

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