Another chart compares total compensation, including benefits, and the story is basically the same.
The figures showed that from 1999 through 2002, a four-year period, Mr. Grasso had total compensation, excluding benefits, of $80.6 million.
Total compensation and benefits expenses for the latest quarter accounted for 47.2percentt of revenue, down from 51.1percentt in the quarter a year earlier.
By another measure of compensation reported in the tax documents — total compensation including benefits — women earned 67 cents for every dollar earned by a man, PolitiFact found.
She also became one of the best-paid arts administrators in the nation: The orchestra's 2015 tax filings show that she made $1.7 million in total compensation and benefits that year, more than twice what Mr. VanBesien made in New York.
An Employee Benefit Research Institute study points out that in 1950, wages made up 95percentt of total compensation, while benefits comprised only 5percentt.
By the second quarter of 2018, the average employee received 32% of their total compensation via benefits (bonuses, paid time off, insurance and retirement plan contributions by their employers).
But PolitiFact labeled his statement a lie because he didn't explain that he was talking about total compensation, including benefits, rather than just salary.
Improvements in the non-wage benefits of primary and secondary school teachers partially offset the worsening wage disparities: The weekly total compensation (wages plus benefits) disadvantage facing teachers in 2015 was about 11percentt, or roughly 6 percentage points less than the 17percentt weekly wage disadvantage estimated for that year.
As for the union, its contracts are frequently for workers' total compensation — wages plus benefits.
