Robert Reich

Robert Reich

How Can Outrageous CEO Pay be Stopped?

Here's One Good Answer

Robert Reich
Dec 09, 2025
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Friends,

As you know by now, I don’t like raising big problems without offering big potential solutions.

The big problem I want to talk about today is that CEO pay has become utterly untethered from reality.

When I was a young man in the 1960s and ’70s, CEOs typically made 20 to 30 times the pay of their workers. That was enough to reward leadership, but…

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