He was known to keep largely to himself and his closest top-tier executives.
FOR now, a foolproof way to derive concrete numbers for how much, on average, second-tier executives make remains elusive.
He said C.E.S. has no rival in its ability to attract top-tier executives in the tech industry, media, retailers and others from the around the world.
Still, for some second-tier executives, the pay packages may keep getting richer even if the board puts the clamps on the chief executive's pay.
If their spouses' sympathy is exhausted, they are turning to executive coaching, a one-to-one, high-cost service (running to thousands of dollars a day) that companies increasingly offer their top-tier executives.
Of the 2011 "top-tier" executives (such as CEOs, presidents and chairmen, as opposed to division heads or vice-presidents), more than a fifth had an undergraduate degree from an Ivy League university, and more than a third had an Ivy League MBA far higher ratios than for lower-level executives in the study.
For a while there, it seemed that these top-tier executives were getting paid handsomely even if their company's performance wasn't so pretty.
Apple CEO Tim Cook took time on the company's earnings call today to comment on a specific rumor, which is an extreme oddity for Apple's top-tier executives.
Despite being top-tier executives, they had faced massive resistance to changes they wanted to implement.
Mr. Hammond's gray-haired, inconspicuously handsome Iago has the weary, angry aspect of a second-tier executive, fed up with being passed over for promotion.
It has nonetheless found itself the proud owner of a giant legal cesspool.Even weirder, BofA's co-defendant is Rebecca Mairone, a mid-tier executive who worked at Countrywide for only two-and-a-half years.
