By the Numbers

25

Number of America’s 100 highest-paid CEOs who took home salaries greater than the amount their companies paid in federal income taxes in 2010

$16.7 million

Average compensation of those 25 CEOs

$1.9 billion

The average global profits of their companies

$40

Amount the average CEO made for every one dollar their average employee made in 1940

$325

Amount the average CEO made for every one dollar their average employee made in 2010

$34,000

Monthly cost to the state of Florida to drug test welfare recipients before they collect their monthly assistance check

2

Percent of those recipients who tested positive for drugs since July

Sources: Institute for Policy Studies; Mother Jones