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Properly quantifying this is of course murky far beyond my skills (and I’m not quite sure the math is correct: hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11142), but…

All that is missing the basic point: if we pay CEOs because they help companies succeed, then shouldn’t we expect a closer relationship between CEO pay growth and worker productivity growth? The way those two numbers diverge suggests instead this is a case of “those who control the money make off with the money.”

@inthehands @nrmacdonald

It's a great conceptual point, though I have very little understanding of how you'd usefully measure it.

@codefolio
I assume it’s taking the numbers from the screenshot at face value — although when I do the math myself, I get -89% CEO productivity growth, so…??

@codefolio

ceo_pay = (1,460 + 100) / 100 = 15.6 pay growth factor vs baseline

productivity = 1.646 pay growth factor vs baseline

productivity / ceo_pay = 0.1055 pay-per-productivity factor vs baseline

(1 − productivity / ceo_pay) × 100 = 89.45, i.e. -89% growth

@nrmacdonald, am I missing something?