No employee of a publicly traded corporation should be compensated (in combined salary, benefits, and bonuses) at more than 50 times the corresponding compensation of the lowest-paid full time employee of that same corporation.
Why is this important?
If you don't personally own stock in a publicly-traded corporation, then your pension fund probably does. When corporate directors approve obscene salaries and bonuses for their higher echelons, they are therefore robbing the rest of us. If you own your own company outright, then okay, pay yourself any amount you please. But if your company is publicly traded, there should be a legal limit to your compensation.
