Wednesday, February 22, 2012

It's different for the rich

Imagine you make a major screw-up at work - costing your company $10 million.  And let's say that you're just an average employee making the median US wage - $50K, so your little oopsie was 200 times your pay.

I'm sure you can imagine your company saying, "oh well, stuff happens - we'll just cut your pay to $45K so that you don't do it again."

Yeah, right.  Where's that unemployment office again?

But if you make $4 billion dollar mistake while making a $20 million salary, you can expect your 10% pay cut to be announced with great fanfare and hailed as a "paying for performance" (see link below)

If you get big rewards for success shouldn't there be big punishment for failure?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-22/at-t-ceo-randall-stephenson-got-pay-cut-for-failed-t-mobile-deal.html

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