1 The Northern Pacific Railway (NP) completed the third independent transcontinental railroad on August 22, 1883, linking Chicago with Seattle. 2  The Completion Ceremony was held on September 8, 1883, with former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant contributing to driving the Final Spike.
The average pay package last year was $22.6 million, up from $20.7 million in 2013, according to an analysis of companies' proxy disclosures by executive-compensation data firm Equilar. The average gain in total compensation for the 200 highest-paid U.S. CEOs worked out to 9.1 percent last year.
Average salaries around the world vary from a low of $30,208 in India to a high of $72,363 in Australia. Back in 2008, investor Peter Thiel posited that a low CEO salary was the best predictor of startup success: âThe lower the CEO salary, the more likely it is to succeed.