Average American CEO

In 1980, the average American CEO made 42 times more than the average hourly worker.

In 1990, the average American CEO made 85 times more than the average hourly worker.

In 2000, the average American CEO made 531 times more than the average hourly worker!!!

"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

--Boston attorney Joseph Welch as he questioned Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin at the Army-McCarthy hearings, which was the beginning of the end of Sen. McCarthy's Communist witch-hunt rampage; June 9, 1954