CEO PAY HIT RECORD IN ’18: REPORT

A new report says Canada’s 100 highest-paid chief executives were paid record amounts in 2018 in comparison to the employees beneath them. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the average CEO at a top publicly traded company would have made as much money as the average Canadian worker will make all year as of 10:09 Thursday morning. The centre says those CEOS made 227 times more than the average worker made in 2018, the most recent year figures are available. That’s up from 197 times average worker pay in 2017, and is the earliest time on record in the 13 years the centre has been tracking the numbers. The report also found 79 per cent of the average CEO’S pay in 2018 came from bonuses related to company stock prices, even in some cases where companies were losing money.

The Canadian Press