The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or colloquially Obamacare, is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
Across all companies, the average CEO pay was $13.8 million per year, the average median worker pay was about $77,800, and the average ratio of CEO pay to median worker pay was 204. In other words, on average, CEOs earn around 204 times what his or her median worker earns.
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.