Pay for top chief executives in the United States has "gained steam" and is on course to set another record high despite a tight labor market.
According to Theo Francis in The Wall Street Journal. Median total pay for S&P 500 bosses (including restricted stock) rose to $14.2m last year, up from $13.4m in 2020, according to the paper's analysis.
Most of those bosses received a pay rise of 11 percent or more, and pay rose by at least a quarter for almost a third.
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Of the highest pay deals so far disclosed this year, David Zaslav of media group Discovery earned $246.6m, Amazon's Andy Jassy received $212.7m and Pat Gelsinger of chipmaker Intel got $178.6m.
