"Compensation continues to generate controversy and anger," Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, said last month.
And the issue of victim's compensation continues to grind on, leaving her financial future unsettled.
Executive compensation continues to attract considerable attention, much of it critical, from shareholder activists, the press and Congress.
Stock-based compensation continues to increase, while the aggregate of all other components of pay remains relatively unchanged.
Other settlement groups, driven by ideology or the desire for greater compensation, continue to refuse to talk with authorities.
"I think you're going to see continuing caution," he says, "because if the anger over executive compensation continues to push its way out, it won't be long before people start taking out ads with people's faces on them".
Since compensation continues to be a major influence for retaining employees, getting it right is critical.
Cases of CEO compensation continuing to expand, while company growth plateaus or even declines, highlight the widening gap between the interests of executives and those of shareholders.
Crazy, nutty, otherworldly CEO compensation continues unfettered and is the poster child for income inequality and is one of the most divisive topics in America today.
After the company's IPO in 2004, founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt requested that their base salary be cut to $1. Subsequent offers by the company to increase their salaries were turned down, primarily because their main compensation continues to come from owning stock in Google.
