A statistic that would gag a maggot
the triumph of capitalism...
i want to know the exact number of the "highly compensated employees" that are raking in the $2.1 trillion and how many of the rest of us poor slobs are splitting the remaining $4.3 trillion...
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Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the U.S., according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Social Security Administration data -- without counting billions of dollars more in pay that remains off federal radar screens that measure wages and salaries.
Highly paid employees received nearly $2.1 trillion of the $6.4 trillion in total U.S. pay in 2007, the latest figures available.
i want to know the exact number of the "highly compensated employees" that are raking in the $2.1 trillion and how many of the rest of us poor slobs are splitting the remaining $4.3 trillion...
Labels: elites, executive pay, super-rich, Wall Street Journal
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posted by profmarcus at
7/21/2009
