CCPA New Release - Jan 2, 2022
No New Year’s
hangover for top CEOs
January 2, 2022
| National Office | Topic(s): Employment & labour,
Inequality & poverty | Publication Type: Press Release | Research
Desk:
Inequality Project
TORONTO - By 12:13 pm on New Year's Day, while many Canadians were
still
nursing a hangover, Canada"s 100 highest paid CEOs had already
pocketed what
will take minimum wage workers the rest of 2007 to earn.
The clock keeps ticking. By 9:46 am Jan. 2, as most Canadians begin
another year of labour, Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs will have
reaped, on
average, $38,010 in pay.
"That equals the average annual earnings of workers in Canada,” says
Hugh Mackenzie, research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives (CCPA). “And it will take them all of 2007 to earn
it.”
By the time Canadians
tune into the 6:00 news Jan. 2, Canada’s
100
highest paid CEOs will have pocketed nearly $70,000. The highest paid
CEO will have pocketed more than $570,000.
“If time is money, are Canada’s
100 highest paid CEOs really worth more in a
day than most Canadian workers are in a year?” asks Mackenzie.
“People wonder
what the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us
looks like. This provides us with a pretty good snapshot of how unevenly
the
Canadian workforce is valued these days.”