Tao Francis
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430 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2022
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That's right.
If you have bought tickets through Ticketmaster recently or gone to a concert organized by Live Nation Entertainment, you have helped its CEO, Michael Rapinoe, make more than $70 million last year.
second among all full year S&P 500 CEOs, except his company isn't even big enough to be in the S&P 500.
Live Nation is too small for that.
He got paid just a hair more even than the CEO of CBS.
which of course is a much bigger media company.
That's right.
This is a repeating pattern.
We often see that the highest paid CEOs are not the best performing and the best performing are not the highest paid.
And there's a fair amount of academic research that shows that this pattern is true, not just in a given year that we're looking at, but over time as well.
In this year's case, you have people like Howard Robin at Nectar Therapeutics, a shareholder return approaching 400% for the year.
He made $18.1 million.
That is certainly over the median pay, but you have others like...
the CEO of Energy Energy at $9 million, well under the median with a shareholder return of over 130%.
When it comes to the median employee pay, you're really seeing a split, kind of three groups of companies.
There's those that really have remarkably high salaries.
median pay.
Companies like Facebook, which was number two at $240,000.
That means half their employees made more than that.
You have Insight, a biotech company, $253,000.
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