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Should CEOs get paid a few hundred times more than their average workers?

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FILE PHOTO: Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet, looks on during a session of the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai was awarded over US$225 million in 2022, or 800 times more than the company's median salary.

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Jeff Sommer

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It’s good to be the boss in the United States. The work can be demanding and full of stress. But you get paid more than everybody else – vastly more, as the latest numbers remind us.

We know how much more bosses are paid because every year, thanks to the Dodd-Frank law of 2010, publicly traded US firms must reveal to their shareholders a trove of information about their top executives’ compensation.

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