What do employees think of CEO compensation?

By: Kevin Modelski

CEO compensation packages didn't always turn heads like they do today.

According to a PayScale Inc. report, at 168 companies with annual revenue of $1 billion, the average ratio of CEO-to-worker pay or more stood at 70-to-1 in 2015. In 1965, that ratio was 20-to-1, according to a 2015 report from the Economic Policy Institute.

Starting in 2017, the Dodd-Frank Act will require all publicly traded companies to publish their CEO-to-worker pay ratio. PayScale, an online salary, benefits and compensation information company, worked with Equilar, a company that provides information on executive compensation, to find out this metric for the highest-paid CEOs in the country. Read More