Poll: Do CEOs earn too much money?

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A new report by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has found rising levels of CEO pay.

Image: Shutterstock/BurAnd Image: Shutterstock/BurAnd A NEW REPORT by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has found that the annual pay and benefits for CEOs in 22 of the largest Irish firms were close to or above €1

million.According to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, it would take an average worker more than 50 years to earn what half of CEOs at top firms are paid each year.So what do you think? Do CEOs earn too much money?

 

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No

Nothing stops anyone opening a company and becoming and CEO, oh wait let someone else do all the work and i'll demand there cut.

I don't care how much their private employers pay them. But tax them progressively.

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