Executive Pay

Businesses can earn good-conduct certificates for how well they treat the environment. We need certificates for good conduct on pay gaps, too.

Why bother building world-class enterprises, U.S. CEOs have concluded, when you can artificially pump up your share price — and your personal fortune — with stock buybacks?

‘Respectable’ corporate giants in the United States today are stealing their employees blind. We need to better understand how — and why.

Amid rising inequality, a new book argues, the notion of capping income has suddenly become politically plausible.

At Barbie-maker Mattel, the CEO pulls in 5,000 times the firm's median worker pay.

U.S. chief execs don’t just make significantly more than their peers in other nations. The corporations they run pay their workers significantly less.

The Minnesota lawmaker has been a champion of efforts to defend the disclosure reform from Republican attack.

A new online tool provides data on whether specific corporations are sharing tax cut windfalls with employees or only rewarding executives and shareholders.

The retail industry lobby doesn’t want transparency on pay gaps. Fortunately, it's now easier to find out for yourself whether companies are sharing the wealth.