America's highest-paid CEOs

Kobe Bryant makes 25 million a year in salary and 28 million in endorsements. Why don't people complain about that? And that is for playing a game.

Just so some of you understand, and I suspect that many of you that support high wage CEO's are young and enthusiastic just starting in your careers...and I mean starting 15 or less years.  Be very careful what bridges you walk on and/or burn....for if you fall in the water, for some...drowning is your only option.  While those that have developed strong relations of fairness and respect, always seem to get a helping hand out to safety.  In business it is not the CEO's that makes the company or Corporation great, but the people under him/her that are willing to go the extra mile for the company and their leaders....you don't get that kind of respect by being greedy and non respectful.  It may work for a while...but in the end, one really does reap what they so...one way or the other.  My wife and I are now retired, and I was the founder and I guess you would call me a CEO of a small company, but I never felt that way, I always had my sleeves rolled up and never asked anyone that worked for me to do something I wasn't willing to do myself right along side of them. The company worked on a very simple model, give the workers, the ones that made the company successful, profit sharing opportunities. Before I left I started two educational scholarships for their families, I took what I earned in my own profit sharing, and the rest I left for them...the workers that gave me my incredible life. I have never regretted any of my decisions. Capitalism is out way of saying...the harder you work, the more rewards you recieve, but from experience, you can't do it alone. Its OK to get rich...thats the American way...but respect those that helped you attain your vision and goals, that too is the American way. In the scope of time....we are only here for a very quick blink of the eye .... when you are searching for that inner piece in your golden years.....the smiles on those faces that you helped .... Pricless!

Here is the biggest problem facing our country, in fact, facing the whole world.

Right! lay off 20 % of your worker so they can get government Assisted and 99 wks..Then you Bit*h about Obama the food stamp man...Just so you can get your millions...You better get all the money now and spend it before you go to HELL...

I alway thought teamwork made companies sucessful.  I must be wrong.  We all are totally screwed. 

I have seen it first hand- Corporations cut pay and benefits while increasing workload to give the appearance of higher profits so the people at the top can wrangle higher compensation. Shameless example of standing on the shoulders of others to reach the cookie jar.

I have nothing against someone who has worked hard to build their company making money, but this is disgusting. The money made by the companies, and the work done to bring that money in, is not solely due to the person at the top of the pyramid. It is the sum of everyone in that company doing their job. Yes even the janitor is included in that. CEO's like these perhaps need to remember that they are only able to live as they do because of the people who work for them. People like these do not have what they do because they work "hard" for it. People like these have what they do because they are basically slave owners.

I'm all for earning what you can, but some of these 'salaries" are so far out of line with the profitability of the companies.  If instead theses CEO's earned $5 million rather than $10 million (still a handsome income), that extra $5 million could create 100 jobs paying $50,000 a year.  Think of the difference that these other jobs could make in many other lives- probably a lot more than that extra $5 million to the CEO who already has as many houses and material things that he/she would ever need.

Ridiculous !!! People can't afford medication or healthcare, but that yahoo can reel in $131M a year. Him and all the other drug company CEO'S should be ashamed.