Dietary changes, after recognition of symptoms of vitamin C deficiency in women, are the best way to combat this nutrient absence. However, reasonable supplement amounts of vitamin C 500 mg or more should be strongly considered if diet alone is not providing enough, which is often the case.
1 Average CEO compensation was $15.2 million in 2013, using a comprehensive measure of CEO pay that covers CEOs of the top 350 U.S. firms and includes the value of stock options exercised in a given year, up 2.8 percent since 2012 and 21.7 percent since 2010.igure A shows how CEO pay fluctuates in tandem with the stock market as measured by the S&P 500 Index, confirming that CEOs tend to cash in their options when stock prices are high. The financial crisis in 2008 and the accompanying stock market tumble knocked CEO compensation down by 44 percent by 2009.
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.EO compensation is not a good proxy for long-term company performance, either. Of executives who were among America's top 25 highest-paid CEOs in any year between 1993 and 2012, 22 percent worked for financial firms that took federal bailout money, according to the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies.