[caseysoftware]

I think you're off by about 80 years:

> Twenty-five years ago, Bill Clinton campaigned on an idea for limiting excessive pay for American CEOs: Cap the tax deductibility of top executives' compensation at $1 million, and companies, not wanting bigger tax bills, might reel in their pay. In his 1993 budget, advisers suggested a compromise: Companies couldn't deduct CEO pay over $1 million unless it was "performance-based."

> But many believe the loophole had the opposite effect, driving companies instead to pay more in stock options and certain performance-based bonuses, which actually supercharged the growth in CEO pay. In 1989, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, the median value of annual CEO compensation was $2.7 million. By 1995 it was $6.6 million, and it reached $13 million in 2016.

Ref: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/11...

[drewcoo]

Looks like they started measuring during the FDR administration.

https://fortune.com/2025/04/15/ceo-worker-pay-gap-problem-am...

[m00x]

Bill Clinton made irreparable damage to the American workforce. He sold out America to move all manufacturing to China by giving massive incentives to companies to do so. The market boomed and all that money went to investors instead of workers.

[prasadjoglekar]

While partially true in hindsight, letting China into the WTO, removing tariffs and giving them MFN status was a bipartisan effort beginning in the 80s and 90s. The premise was that China's market would open for US goods and services as well.

It hasn't worked out like that for sure.

[echaozh]

It hasn't? If only the US is willing to sell.