Putting Nike’s $96,000-a-day compensation to Mark Parker into perspective

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Putting Nike’s $96,000-a-day compensation to Mark Parker into perspective

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Six months ago I noted the great disconnect between Nike CEO and President Mark Parker’s compensation and that of the typical Oregon household.

Putting Nike’s $96,000-a-day compensation to Mark Parker into perspective

Six months ago I noted the great disconnect between Nike CEO and President Mark Parker’s compensation and that of the typical Oregon household. Parker topped the compensation chart in the Portland Business Journal’s report of executive pay in publicly traded businesses in Oregon. His daily compensation was $96,000 — more than twice the annual compensation of the typical (median) Oregon household in 2011 ($46,816).

In “The Infinity Pool of Executive Pay” this past weekend, The New York Times reported that Nike’s Mark Parker had the fourth highest compensation in the nation among corporations with at least $5 billion in annual revenue in a list compiled by the executive compensation data firm Equilar. And when you play with the data you will see that Parker won top slot for biggest growth in compensation in the nation.

The New York Times article notes the great disconnect between the business leaders’ claims that they have become more sensitive about public perceptions of compensation excesses and the perks they are enjoying.

And the great disconnect I wrote about six months ago — income inequality, stagnant wages and high unemployment on one hand and the growth of CEO pay on the other — rings true nationally as well. As the Times noted, this is all happening “even though unemployment remains high by historical standards and the top 1 percent of earners face higher taxes.” The article posits “executives and boards may figure that the popular outrage that followed the financial crisis and the recession has cooled a bit.”

Are people still outraged? Or does winning take care of everything?


This post was originally published on www.blueoregon.com on April 10, 2013. The original post can be found at http://www.blueoregon.com/2015/04/putting-96000-day-perspective/.

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Chuck Sheketoff

Chuck Sheketoff

Chuck Sheketoff is a founder of the Oregon Center for Public Policy and former Executive Director. Incorporated in 1995, the Center was launched with Chuck as its first executive director after Chuck received the "public interest pioneer award" from the Stern Family Fund in September, 1997. Prior to starting the Center, Chuck lobbied the Oregon legislature on tax policies and on human services programs' policies and budgets on behalf of legal aid clients (1992 to 1996) and the low-income clients of the Oregon Law Center (1997).

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