The United States CEO amazing rally revenue than last year overall rose about 30%

Display America to a recent survey, large companies CEO about income in 2004 than last year overall rose 30%, part of CEO's income rising even more than 10 times. The researchers also found that a large part of their income from restricted stock and stock options.

A company management research institute "in Portland the United States Maine legal library" presided over the investigation activities. The researchers surveyed the 2000 Largest Companies in the United States CEO revenue, and then to the data of the 1843 CEO to sort out.

Survey report shows that CEO's revenue last year, a significant increase over the previous year. A typical large company CEO2004 revenue of $5 million 740 thousand, up 30.2% over 2003. This figure is amazing. U.S. 2004 consumer index rose 3.3%, but CEO revenue growth is more than the number of more than 9. Even with the 2003 consumer price index rose 15% compared to CEO's revenue growth has doubled.

The corporate library defines the CEO income as a total of 5 parts, including salary, bonus, bonus dividend, restricted stock and realized option value. This is much broader than the definition used by some income research experts. The investigators found a unique phenomenon: CEO salary in the proportion of total income is not high, accounting for the bulk of the bonus, stock options and restricted stock income.

According to the survey, the average annual salary of CEO is $711 thousand, but usually they have a bonus of $1 million 30 thousand.