Paul Hodgson, a senior research associate at the Corporate Library, which collects executive-pay data, notes that few executives use their own cash to purchase company stock; the shares are granted to them as part of their pay packages.
To gauge the divide, Executive Compensation Advisory Services, an Alexandria, Va., division of Harcourt Inc. that collects, analyzes and sells information on executive pay, collected data on pay at 160 companies among the early filers of proxies for 1999, the documents in which compensation details are reported.
The site has been used to publish raw Guardian information too: the executive pay survey data and the background full spreadsheets behind Felicity Lawrence's supermarket scoops, for instance.
As David Cameron set out proposals to give shareholders a binding vote on executive pay deals, data compiled by a leading advisory body, Pensions & Investment Research Consultants (Pirc), showed how few remuneration votes had more than 50% of votes cast against them since investors were granted an advisory vote in 2003.
Executive Compensation Advisory Services, an Alexandria, Va., division of Drake Beam Morin that analyzes and sells information on executive pay, collected the data.
Go to www.forbes.com/ceos for a listing of 500 chief executive paychecks and other pay data, the full performance-versus-pay scorecard of 175 bosses and a 20-year chart on executive pay.
Sony pictures has been left reeling from the November attack after thousands of documents were published online including personal email correspondence, employees' personal data, executive pay and unreleased films and scripts.
(We were not able to exclude chief executive pay from the BLS data on all workers; if we could, the disparity between chief executive pay and that of all other workers would likely be larger).
HuffPost's 'Pay Pals' interactive dataviz - The HuffPost data team partnered with researchers at the Center for Economic Policy and Research to compile data on executive pay and director compensation from publicly disclosed shareholder filings.
A survey published in April looked at preliminary data on executive pay.
A preliminary examination of executive pay in 2010, based on data available as of April 1, found that the paychecks for top American executives were growing again, after shrinking during the 2008-9 recession.
