Categories: New York Times

Is Capital or Labor Winning at Your Favorite Company?

Publicly held corporations now must disclose their median employee compensation. Those numbers gave us an idea for a new analytical approach to an age-old struggle.

Who benefits the most when a company is successful: its shareholders or its employees? Capital or labor?

It is a question that speaks to some of the oldest debates in economics. But now, thanks to a minor provision in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law, we have a tool for measuring, in rough terms at least, how much any given publicly traded firm rewards its shareholders relative to its rank-and-file employees.

Behold, the Marx Ratio.

admin

Recent Posts

High-Profile CEOs See Security Perks Climb in Divisive Environment

Nearly 40 S&P 500 firms included security costs in their CEOs' perk packages last year,…

3 months ago

Hanging Around: More 65+ CEOs Stay On the Job

Within the next five years, major corporations from JPMorgan Chase to The Walt Disney Co.…

4 months ago

AI Disclosures Increase, yet Committee Charters Have Not Caught Up

Artificial intelligence is the single-largest area that boards have devoted time to in the last…

5 months ago

The Highest Paid CEOs of 2023

The chiefs of America’s biggest companies reached new pay heights in 2023 as stock awards…

6 months ago

Musk Effect Drives Spread of Supersize CEO Pay Packages

Elon Musk didn’t just upend the global auto business and space missions. The billionaire is…

6 months ago

Top 5 Highest Paid American CEOs Of 2023

In 2023, the leaders of America's largest companies saw their compensation packages soar to unprecedented…

6 months ago