Salaries of CEOs of Motor Companies

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According to Equilar Inc., an executive compensation research and data provider, the annual compensation of the following CEOs (in USD) were:

President of Toyota: $1 million
CEO of General Motor (Wagoner: $15.7 million
CEO of Ford Motor (Mulally): $22.8 million,

What’s missing is a formula for determining what is a fair salary. I suggest using 365 times 12 hours per day = hours that an executive works as the basis for an hourly rate to be paid. This gives executives the premise that they work 12 hour days, 365 days per year. hat works out to 4,380 per year. Then determine what a “reasonable” pay per hour is.

The claim that outsize income packages are necessary to retain talent is unproven be the GM fiasco. Mr. Waggoners pay package of around $15,000,000 works out to be $3, 425 PER HOUR. And what did the company get for this - leadership into insolvency?

Using the above formula, Toyota’s president earned under $230/hour and look at the great job he’s done. Did Mr. Waggoner do 20 times as well as Toyota? I leave that to the reader.