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.
The average salary for all employees as of this writing is $48,000 â so expect that average to fall exactly at $70,000 by 2018, at which point Price himself will drop his nearly $1 million per year salary down to $70,000 as well.s reported by the Inquisitr, CEO salaries are always a hotbed topic, usually making the news because of their hefty sums, not because of CEOs taking nearly $1 million salary cuts down to $70,000 per year.