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Average board-member compensation climbed about 12 percent in 2006, to a mean of $160,439, according to a new study from Institutional Shareholder Services. Median pay increased 10.5 percent, to $143,123. The increase was driven by a 16 percent rise in the value of equity-based compensation,
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"A study released earlier this year by the Corporate Library -- and titled "Pay for Failure" -- singled out some of the corner suite's worst offenders. Among them: Pfizer CEO Henry McKinnell; Merck former CEO Raymond Gilmartin; and AT&T's Edward Whitacre." (via
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Back-to-back results published by the Economic Policy Institute that show that “In 2005, an average Chief Executive Officer (CEO) was paid 821 times as much as a minimum wage earner, who earns just $5.15 per hour. An average CEO earns more before lunchtime on the very first