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Bailed-Out Execs’ Salaries Averaged $28.9M Before Meltdown

HeadlineDec 15, 2009

The meeting was held as new figures showed CEOs of the top ten failed or bailed-out Wall Street firms were paid an average $28.9 million in the years leading up to the nation’s financial meltdown. According to Public Citizen, the executives’ average pay this decade amounts to 575 times the median income for US families.

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