The original transcontinental railroad route did not pass through the two biggest cities in the so-called Great American Desert â Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah.
On average, a German CEO at a large company made about $5.9 million in 2013, while U.S. CEOs in the S&P 500 made an average of $12.3 million. Thatâs because U.S. chief executive pay is intimately tied to their companyâs share price through stock option compensation and other forms of equity pay.n the U.S., average annual worker pay is $34,645. A German worker receives $40,223 a year on average. In the U.S., there have been several attempts to close the CEO-worker pay gap through an increase in the minimum wage. The issue has found its way to the ballot box in several states in the 2014 midterm elections.
In addition, Obama gets a tax-free expense account worth $50,000. Merkel's salary as German chancellor is set at 216,000 euros a year ($234,383). The chancellor and her ministers got a 2.2% pay rise at the beginning of March, according to government documents. The British prime minister earns Â£142,500 ($214,782) a year.That includes his salary as a member of parliament, which is Â£67,060. The French president would have ranked much higher on this list, had he not taken a 30% pay cut the moment he took office in 2012.e now earns roughly 8.2 million rubles per year ($136,000) as Russian president. The Indian prime minister's salary is just 1,900,000 rupees a year, which comes to little over $30,000. That's according to an official response to a freedom of information request submitted by local media.