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- Super-sized pay rises, super-sized options
  Posted by SoxFirst
  American chief executives saw the value of their stock options more than triple last year thanks to a booming market. That's on top of those generous pay rises and bonuses.
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- Is 2007 the year to prick the CEO pay balloon?
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  It's a sign of the times. Whole Foods Markets CEO John Mackey in a letter to his employees, republished in Fast Company, has announced that he is taking a massive pay cut - to just $1 a year. And there are signs that 2007 will be the year they prick the CEO pay balloon.
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- Soaring CEO pay shows "market failure"
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  The generous rewards for chief executive officers reflects "market failure" and can't be justified by arguing that the top job gets highly paid because it has more risks, according to a new report.
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- The change-of-control scam: sell out, keep your job and pocket the cash
  Posted by SoxFirst
  The boom in private equity is creating a new scam in executive pay. In many of these deals, bosses sell out to private equity and pick up millions in so-called change of control provisions, and then continue running the business.
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- Hog city for executive pay
  Posted by SoxFirst
  American bosses continue to rake it in, with their average annual cash bonuses going up by close to half and total cash compensation up by about one-third for 2006.
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- More dought for CEOs
  Posted by SoxFirst
  The history of the way US companies pay their CEOs shows that no amount of regulation will help rein in executive pay. In fact, some of the measures used to fight it only make it worse.
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- The knock-on effects of CEO pay
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  Excessive pay packets for bosses could be having an enormous impact on organisations. A study has found that impact of the CEO's pay cascades right through the organisation. If a CEO was overpaid by 64 per cent, people like the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, are overpaid too. The study also found that the others just leave.
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Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.
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