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.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Jack Friedman joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -34.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Jan. 1, 1996 to July 26, 2016
Other board members at INTL FCStone during this time were Brent Bunte, Daryl Henze, Diego J. Veitia and 5 more.
The Pay Pals project relies on financial research conducted by the Center for Economic Policy and Research.
Sources: Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, INTL FCStone SEC filings (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012).
By Shane Shifflett, Jay Boice, Hilary Fung and Aaron Bycoffe