Six C.E.O. Pay Packages That Explain Soaring Executive Compensation

As economic uncertainty roils the country, the income gap between top executives and everyday employees continues to grow ever wider.

This year, thanks to a rule in the 2010 Dodd-Frank banking regulation law, publicly traded corporations in the United States had to begin comparing the pay of their chief executives to the median compensation of other employees at the company. The results, collected in the Equilar 200 Highest-Paid C.E.O. Rankings, were predictably striking. READ MORE