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.
GOOD magazineâs most recent transparency contest asked designers to focus their powers on showing CEO compensation in the United States. The above graphic, by Dee Adams, won top honors. Adamsâ graphic shows the eight CEOs with the highest compensations and the number of minimum wage earners that each respective CEOâs compensation could have supported. Bruce Wasserstein of Lazard ltd. was the top earner at $133 million, or the annual salary of 8,866 minimum wage earners. Below are the two runners up by Amanda Buck and Thomas Edwards, respectively.