Hey, don't feel bad, vassals, CEOs are just like you -- they, too, only got tiny raises last year. Of course, unlike you, when CEOs get raises, the...

For people who were blown away to learn recently that the 11 largest global pharmaceutical companies made an astonishing $711 billion in profits over the last decade, here's another measure of the industry's greed.

Approximately 40 Sony senior executives are voluntarily taking a pay cut as the company’s profits continue to suffer. Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai is ju...

We’ve made progress on a lot of things since the 1950s and so have CEOs -- in their quest for more money that is. The ratio of CEO-to-worker pay...

The private sector should be held to the same standard of scrutiny that the government itself receives from the people, and corporate governance should be as much a matter of public debate and law as political governance.

The high pay for those at the top does not come out of the air; it comes from everyone else's paycheck. There is no single policy that would reverse this enormous upward redistribution of income, but reining in CEO pay has to be an important part of the story.

When the S&P 500 index soared to a record high earlier this month, everyone from investors and CEOs were reaping the benefits. Everyone, that is, e...

CEOs are living the good life. On the company’s dime. America's 100 best-paid corporate chiefs got an 18.7 percent boost in their perks packages...

-- Macy's gave its chief executive Terry Lundgren pay package worth $11.3 million in 2012. That's down 22 percent from 2011 as he failed to meet all ...

-- The CEO of Sears Holding Corp. received a compensation package worth nearly 90 percent less in 2012 than the prior year. Louis D'Ambrosio's becam...

Meet Mike Duke, king of the CEO-to-worker pay ratio. The Walmart CEO gets paid 1,034 times more than the median Walmart worker, according to a new ...

Bank of America says chief executive Brian Moynihan received a 2012 compensation package worth $7.4 million, down slightly from the prior year, accord...

It's not news that CEOs get paid way more than you do, but recent reports reveal that some are getting paid even more not to come to work anymore. ...

If you feel like your pay isn’t going up, then you’re probably not a CEO. CEO pay rose 8 percent on average last year, according to an analysi...

NEW YORK -- PepsiCo gave CEO Indra Nooyi a pay package worth $12.6 million last year, down 11 percent from the previous year, as the soda-and-snack fo...

While in theory the system pays people for responsible decision-making, in practice it rewards executives for generating outsize returns even at the expense of the company's future.

* Disputes reports saying automaker requested pay increase * Says requested $9 mln pay package, not $11.1 mln * GM says ...

As our economy recovers ever so slowly, only the wealthy have recovered at all. Why are the rest of us left behind?

LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland chairman Philip Hampton has defended the bonus due to be paid to chief executive Stephen Hester even though...

A new report undermines a common rationale for paying chief executives huge sums. The notion that CEOs will jump ship lured by the offer of better ...

(Reuters) - Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman received lower compensation for 2012 after profits declined but the bank showed progr...

Congress continues its trend of dysfunction and paralysis even as many CEOs are making unprecedented money for delivering poor results. It's a paradox: why do we let failed leaders stick around well beyond their expiration dates?