Many expected this first year of the CEO pay ratio disclosures to result in more drama. Thankfully for most companies, shareholder and employee reactions were minimal despite the media doing its thing — trying to spotlight the chasm between CEO compensation and the rest of the workforce. Furthermore, while there was speculation that the big story wouldn’t be about the CEO’s pay but about the median employee’s salary and how a person would compare his or her own pay to that of the median employee, that does not seem to have materialized … at least not yet. At the end of the day, CEO pay has long been a hot-button issue; people know it’s generally high and more than their own take-home. READ MORE