Apple’s 2013 performance relative to the S&P 500 costs Tim Cook $4M in stock

But the CEO still has nearly $40M in stock and made 2% more overall than in 2012.

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In japan, the companies (CEO's and their ilk), can't make more than 30 times that of the lowest paid employee.

I haven't put a ton of (or any) deep thought into this, but on the surface, that seems really reasonable. Of course, there are a ton of complications for massive US companies that would make it difficult to implement, first and foremost being how hesitant they'd be to be that transparent with their worker wages, but the idea of the CEO only being allowed to make 600k/yr because their in-house call centre technicians only make 20k/yr doesn't seem out of line.

Want more money, Mr. CEO? I guarantee that the 10% raise that you will have to give to your lowest paid staff will mean more to them than it will to you.

The cynic in me, however, realizes that if this was the case in North America, companies will just contract out as much as possible, leaving only the high salary guys on our shores.