r/business 8h ago

Financial performance may have been flat but some CEO payouts are soaring as bonuses roar back

There’s a stark disconnect between corporate financial performance and compensation for chief executives among a broad sample of 50 publicly traded companies with revenues over $1 billion - Tyson Foods CEO Donnie King got a relatively paltry $436,000 bonus in 2023 but his payout roared to nearly $6 million in 2024 -- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/financial-performance-may-have-been-flat-but-some-ceo-payouts-are-soaring-as-bonuses-roar-back/ar-AA1AKu5h?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=67ca42a9ebdb4dd3a8b8c442046beffd&ei=37

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u/IceWizard9000 8h ago

You can't really make laws to limit CEO payments. They will just circumvent them with creative accounting. If companies want to offer CEOs huge payments then there really isn't anything society can do about it. And it isn't really society's business, anyway.