C.E.O.'s Salaries

[A500leroy]

Genuine question educated me.

Why do they get paid 100's of 1000s in salary compaired to normal workers/management.

Are they on 24/7 call out? Not allowed holidays or sickness? Are the jobs so difficult that an ordinary person couldnt do them? Not allowed a family life as work has to be number 1?

Whay is they get paid a lot of money and get large bonuses (even in some cases they fail?)

[A500leroy]

Yes genuine question. With me being at the bottom of the ladder, just wondered how much harder the ceo is grafting to be worth the massive salary as i have no idea what he does!

[A500leroy]

Cheers chaps a bit clearer now, they kind of deserve what they get, but the difference between the bottom and them seems to be getting wider which does appear to be wrong.

[A500leroy]

Biggy Stardust said:

A500leroy said:

Cheers chaps a bit clearer now, they kind of deserve what they get, but the difference between the bottom and them seems to be getting wider which does appear to be wrong.

As long as you get what you contracted for, what business is it of yours what others receive?

Because i think it would be loverly if we lived in a world where no human in any country let alone ours needed such things as food banks or government grants to turn the heating on. Maybe if the gap was lower and the profits of companies where a little more equally split we'd get somewhere near?

[A500leroy]

bristolbaron said:

A500leroy said:

Biggy Stardust said:

A500leroy said:

Cheers chaps a bit clearer now, they kind of deserve what they get, but the difference between the bottom and them seems to be getting wider which does appear to be wrong.

As long as you get what you contracted for, what business is it of yours what others receive?

Because i think it would be loverly if we lived in a world where no human in any country let alone ours needed such things as food banks or government grants to turn the heating on. Maybe if the gap was lower and the profits of companies where a little more equally split we'd get somewhere near?

Let's take a look...

https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/europe/39428...

Shell's CEO received 6.1m in 2021 (Incl 2.1m bonus)
Shell has 87,000 employees with an average salary of 119,112. His salary was 57 times higher than average.

Let's say its unfair he receives so much, so we reduce him down to the average ( 119,112) and split the rest between the staff team as a bonus. Everyone gets an extra 68.74. It's probably not a good idea to lose your CEO to give everyone an extra fiver a month.

If you took it away from money and paid in bread. Lets say the ceo gets 200 loaves a year and the average worker gets 10.
Wouldnt it be a nicer world if the ceo had 150 loaves (he'd still have plenty to eat) and the rest was dived between the workers who would have a little more to eat than they would have previously done.