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 April 2010, if you bought shares in companies when Ralph Snyderman joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -14.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -18.4 percent return from the S&P 500.
Jan. 1, 1995 to April 18, 2010
Other board members at Procter & Gamble during this time were Angela F. Braly, Charles R. Lee, Ernesto Zedillo 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, Procter & Gamble SEC filings (2008, 2009, 2010).
By Shane Shifflett, Jay Boice, Hilary Fung and Aaron Bycoffe