I grow tired of these comparison articles that look at pay for positions based on the median.\u00a0 It is almost impossible to compare roles across companies, markets, industries, etc.\u00a0 However, there is always one position within a company that takes the main blow\u2026CEO.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been fortunate to work with quite a few highly-skilled CEO\u2019s and been provided the opportunity to see their typical day.\u00a0 The CEO position is extremely difficult even in the \u201ceasiest\u201d of positions.<\/p>\n
So here comes Salary.com with The 8 Most Overpaid & Underpaid Jobs<\/a>.\u00a0 And, of course, CEO\u2019s are one of the overpaid positions.<\/p>\n A good CEO helps an organization meet its goals, improves profits, makes shareholders happy, and is worth his or her weight in gold. Unfortunately, bad CEOs seem to be worth their weight in gold too. And the really, really bad ones are paid astronomical amounts for the inconvenience of being fired. With this sky-high median salary, it doesn\u2019t seem unreasonable to expect pay-for-performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Really?\u00a0 Pay-for-performance isn\u2019t in play for CEO\u2019s?\u00a0 How about news anchors on failing networks?\u00a0 Or movie actors involved in multiple flops?\u00a0 Those are huge salaries for people who do not head up companies that employ 10\u2019s, 100\u2019s or thousands of people.\u00a0 Most are adept at what they do and are handsomely compensated for it.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure why that is a stumbling block for so many people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I grow tired of these comparison articles that look at pay for positions based on the median.\u00a0 It is almost impossible to compare roles across companies, markets, industries, etc.\u00a0 However, there is always one position within a company that takes the main blow\u2026CEO.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been fortunate to work with quite a few highly-skilled CEO\u2019s and been provided the opportunity to see their typical day.\u00a0 The CEO position is extremely difficult even in the \u201ceasiest\u201d of positions. So here comes Salary.com with The 8 Most Overpaid & Underpaid Jobs.\u00a0 And, of course, CEO\u2019s are one of the overpaid positions. A good CEO helps an organization meet its goals, improves profits, makes… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,31],"tags":[1705,1764,1329,521,97,56],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-EA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}