CEO pay is determined by a company’s board of directors. Those directors are compensated for the time they spend shaping the company’s strategy. Here’s what the Fortune 100 executives paid each other from 2008 to 2012.
Jan. 1, 1986 to Jan. 1, 2011
Other board members at Costco Wholesale during this time were Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D., Charles T. Munger, Daniel J. Evans and 11 more.
The Pay Pals project relies on financial research conducted by the Center for Economic Policy and Research.
Sources: Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, Costco Wholesale SEC filings (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012).
By Shane Shifflett, Jay Boice, Hilary Fung and Aaron Bycoffe