CEO salaries are growing at the biggest companies in the U.S., while employee wages simultaneously grow but at a slower rate.
A Monday study created for the Associated Press by Equilar paints a broad picture of pay packages awarded to hundreds of CEOs last year.
The study focused on S&P 500 companies, narrowing the list to 341 CEOs in their positions for at least two consecutive years to avoid inflated numbers caused by sign-on bonuses.
The researchers took public data from proxy statements filed by those companies between January 1 and April 30 and pinpointed
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