If you randomly put 10,000 Americans in a room, only one would have earned the $10.46 million that a CEO at a typical large public company made last year.
And while CEO pay was surging 9 percent from 2012, it rose a scant 1.3 percent for the rest of us. A typical CEO now earns 257 times what an average U.S. worker does, up from a multiple of 180 in 2009, according to an analysis by The Associated Press and Equilar.
Collectively, those figures expose the fault lines of a widening wealth gap in the United States.
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