Executive basics
What are Executives?
Senior employees that focus on administrative decisions. Typically hold titles like CEO, CFO, or COO.
$18.9 million.
What political group generally supports higher taxes on executives?
Democrats
What percentage of executives have attended an Ivy League school?
60%.
What year would a median worker have to start working to make what a CEO does in 1 year?
1740.
Which political group generally opposes higher taxes?
Republicans.
What is the average number of years that an executive has been with their company?
18-24 years.
What system is created through pay gaps?
Which Federal act requires companies to disclose pay ratios?
The Dodd-Frank act.
33-1.
Subsidize them.
Some proposed laws would increase corporate taxes if their pay ratio exceeds to what number?
50-1.
What is the pay ratio today?
281-1.
High executive pay has become a tool for what type of modern labor activity?
Labor organizing/recruitment.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017).