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 September 2009, if you bought shares in companies when Sallie L. Krawcheck joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -37.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a -28.0 percent return from the S&P 500.
July 1, 2006 to Sept. 30, 2009
Other board members at Dell during this time were Alan A.G. Lafley, Alex J. Mandl, Donald J. Carty and 9 more.
The Pay Pals project relies on financial research conducted by the Center for Economic Policy and Research.
Sources: Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, Dell SEC filings (2008).
By Shane Shifflett, Jay Boice, Hilary Fung and Aaron Bycoffe