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UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
Sun May 5, 2019, 07:46 PM May 2019

Citigroup CEO makes 486 times more than the bank's rank-and-file

Michael Corbat earned $24.1 million last year as the boss at Citigroup, while the median pay at the company came to less than $50,000.

Does he feel there’s a problem that needs addressing?

‘Through the grace of God, through hard work, I got to where I am. So I am that person that looked up and said maybe if I work hard enough I can get there.’

Corbat, who was questioned last month by U.S. lawmakers over the income divide in the financial sector, told CNBC in an interview on Thursday that he started at the bank in 1983 making only $17,000 a year and worked his way to the top.

At Citigroup C, +1.09% , as CNBC pointed out, the pay gap is the biggest among all large U.S. banks. But this kind of top-heavy structure has recently come under scrutiny in other sectors, as well, including at Disney DIS, +0.14% , where CEO Bob Iger in 2018 earned 1,424 times the media worker.

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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/citigroup-ceo-makes-486-times-more-than-the-banks-rank-and-file-and-he-says-his-story-should-be-aspirational-2019-05-02?mod=mw_theo_homepage

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Citigroup CEO makes 486 times more than the bank's rank-and-file (Original Post) UpInArms May 2019 OP
"Through hard work, I got to where I am." BS. He worked harder than anyone else at Citigroup? Doodley May 2019 #1
By his "I am the center of the universe" measuring stick UpInArms May 2019 #2

UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
2. By his "I am the center of the universe" measuring stick
Sun May 5, 2019, 08:06 PM
May 2019

I guess



eta: I wish his grammar was better

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