CEO pay down over 2% since 2007

[BDKJMU]

Sure, median CEO pay in 2010 soared 27% from 09' from 7.1 to 9.0 million. But that was after falling from 9.2 million to 7.1 million from 07' through 09'.

So from 07' to 10' it has fallen from 9.2 million to 9.0 million, a drop of over 2.0%

Now the title of this article was
"CEO pay soars while workers' pay stalls" when it could as easily have been "CEO pay down over 2% since 2007" or "CEO pay soars, but still below 07' high". The "CEO pay soars while workers' pay stalls" headline was obviously meant to invoke populist emotion and play on class warfare. Headline was probably written by a donk. Here's what they put in the article but neglected to base the headline off of:

".....Median CEO pay in 2010 was $9.0 million, based on 158 Standard & Poor’s 500 index companies with the same CEO serving all of 2009 and 2010 that have reported CEO pay, according to the USA TODAY analysis of data from GovernanceMetrics based on proxies that have already been filed.
The median amount that CEOs actually took home — which includes salary and cash bonuses, as well as stock and options awarded in previous years that vested or were cashed in — was $8.6 million. That’s the most CEOs have pulled down since the median of $9.2 million in 2007, according to GovernanceMetrics’ analysis of S&P 500 companies.
•Bounced back in a big way. CEOs’ 2010 median pay jumped 27% from $7.1 million in 2009, one of the largest increases in recent history. The jump was a complete reversal from 2009 and 2008, when most CEOs took a pay haircut......"
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies ... y-2010.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[TwinTownBisonFan]

[Ivytalk]

Steve Buscemi creeps me out. But I take your point.