claim: "the average ceo makes $10,000 more every day ... than what the average worker makes every year."
author: joe biden
evidence_1: apr 6, 2015 ... the 13 ceos of a group of well-known retailers and restaurants haul in an  average $5,859 an hour according to a usa today analysis of data from s&p  capital iq. putting that another way: it would take an employee making $10 a  hour a more than two months working each day to earn as much as the ...
evidence_2: oct 15, 2014 ... oates started working at wells fargo on a wage of $13 an hour, and now seven  years later makes $15 an hour, and said he hasn't been able to keep up ... my  proposal is take $3 billion dollars, just a small fraction of what wells fargo pulls  in annually, and raise every employees annual salary by $10,000 ...
evidence_3: mar 12, 2013 ... that's compared to an average of about $17,486 per year for a worker at  comparable walmart-owned sam's club. and apparently the extra pay pays off.  costco makes more than $10,000 in profits per employee, while walmart takes  home about $7,400 per worker, according to the daily beast (walmart and ...
evidence_4: dec 10, 2013 ... the ceos of mcdonald's and starbucks earn more than $9200 an hour, or 1000  times the hourly wages of their sales associates, according to a report. ... dividing  each chief executive's total compensation (as reported in the company's annual  proxy statement) by 60 hours a week times 50 weeks per year.
evidence_5: in the united states, the compensation of company executives is distinguished by  the forms it takes and its dramatic rise over the past three decades and wide- ranging criticism leveled against it. in the past three decades in america  executive compensation or pay has risen dramatically beyond what can be  explained by ...