$43 MIL
$42 MIL
$41 MIL
$40 MIL
$39 MIL
$38 MIL
$37 MIL
$36 MIL
$34 MIL
$33 MIL
$35 MIL
AMERICA’S
BAILOUT
BARONS
Taxpayers, High Finance,
and the CEO Pay Bubble
Co-authors
Sarah Anderson
John Cavanagh
Chuck Collins
Sam Pizzigati
Researcher
Travis McArthur
INSTITUTE FOR
POLICY STUDIES
16th Annual
Executive
Compensation
Survey
SEPTEMBER
2009
About the Authors
Sarah Anderson is the Director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and a co-author
of 15 previous IPS annual reports on executive compensation.
John Cavanagh is the Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and co-author of Development Redefined: How
the Market Met Its Match (Paradigm, 2009).
Chuck Collins is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he directs the Program on Inequality
and the Common Good. He was a co-founder of United for a Fair Economy, and his latest book is the co-
authored The Moral Measure of the Economy.
Sam Pizzigati is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of Greed and Good: Under-
standing and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives (Apex Press, 2004). He edits Too Much, on online
weekly on excess and inequality.
Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research,
and Rob Weissman, Essential Action, for providing valuable comments on this report.
Research Assistance: Travis McArthur
Report Design: Chris Hartman Cover Design: Marantha Wilson and Nathan Kerksick
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