United Healthcare CEO’s “Below Average” Compensation If you’d bought $1,000 of stock in United Healthcare a decade ago, and held on through the ensuing roller coaster, you’d have $6,400 today. Nice. But not nearly as nice as CEO Stephen Hemsley made out. According to yesterday’s Star Tribune: UnitedHealth Group Inc. CEO Stephen Hemsley took home $48.8...Read More
Making the Janitor’s Annual Salary . . . Every 3 Hours! The inimitable (and frequently bombastic) Barry Ritholtz, author of The Big Picture blog, has a great post today dissecting absurd CEO compensation titled “American Pastime: Overpaying CEO’s.” His piece basically picks up where my post last Thursday (“Parsing Occidental CEO Ray Irani’s ‘Excellent Performance'”)...Read More
