Listeners of this podcast are aware the US suffers from extreme wealth and income inequality. (E.g., see my “The Unrecognized Tragedy of Working Class Immiseration” STAT News essay posted here on December 31st.) Concerning CEO compensation in the health care industry, the highest ten paid CEO’s in 2020 were paid an average of $20 million. By comparison, according to 2020 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average salary for a BS nurse is $80,000.
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Listeners of this podcast are aware the US suffers from extreme wealth and income inequality. (E.g., see my “The Unrecognized Tragedy of Working Class Immiseration” STAT News essay posted here on December 31st.) Concerning CEO compensation in the health care industry, the highest ten paid CEO’s in 2020 were paid an average of $20 million. By comparison, according to 2020 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average salary for a BS nurse is $80,000.