Microsoft's CEO Got A Huge Pay Increase, Here's How Much Money He Makes

@DAOWAce: Nobody is rich because somebody else is poor. If anything, we benefit from it.

Income inequality is really low in Afghanistan. You might like it there.

There is a strong argument to be made that many of these executives are underpaid. Keep in mind their compensation is often composed of 90%+ equity in the company, which is not liquid for several years or upon meeting certain benchmarks. There's nothing wrong with giving a CEO partial ownership in a company that he/she directly grew.

Larry Kulp from GE is a good example of a Fortune 500 executive that deserves to make more. That guy came into a failing business and stabilized it. He saved hundreds of thousands of pensions. GE wouldn't exist today if anybody else in the world but him was their leader. That's huge. You can't pay somebody like that enough. If it wasn't for him, all the 99%ers working there would be unemployed. The fact that he's wealthy is not hurting anybody.

@restatbonfire: Because nobody is entitled to get payed any specifc sum. If there were no labor unions most people would still be starving, similar to how things were before the government and labor unions stepped in to demand better pay for simple workers.

But in the business world you get payed for performance. So if you can generate billions of $ for a company, then you can also expect to get a nice share of those profits. And if a company doesn't pay enough, then someone else will. But this is how capitalism works. Supply and demand. Getting payed nice wages for doing the same work as millions of others is something our society has created artificially. In the real world your value, what you have to offer to others decides your income.

And I'm not saying that being hell bent on increasing profits for your company at any cost is the way to go. But if you do a shitty job or provide nothing that no one else doesn't already, then why would you expect to get payed more than the bare minimum? And the business world is ruled by money, so if you tried to create the best products possible instead of aiming for max profits, then you'd probably be replaced very quickly.

@restatbonfire: cause he works longer and harder then all the other employees. While they have set hours he’s on call 24/7. Do you expect him to run a International company for minimum wage?

@restatbonfire: Well, the company made 100 billion last year and this guy runs the show. Seems logical to me.

Workers are paid by their skill set and what they can attribute to the company, and a companies goal is to maximize profits.

@chubby170: me I wish that :(

@juiceair: unlike the janitor I bet the CEO is on call 24/7 and works longer and his job is more difficult. Janitors for companies like Microsoft are independent contractors and the bid on it.

@Greylock3491: Lol, Microsoft made 100 billion last year. 42 million for the top exec salary isnt even a dent.

@Greylock3491: @Greylock3491: they do ... waaaaaaaaaaaaay more than 42 million a year and that's not even scratching the surface, specially within the R&D department. Also worth noting that Microsoft is one of the most giving companies out there. If you want to start a tech business you can easily enter the Microsoft Start-Up programme and get funded with U$25K Azure credit plus other free licenses. The number may seem really big , but you have to consider things within context and within their adequate proportions. This is well deserved, he has turned Microsoft around hugely in the last years in more ways than just tech.

@deviltaz35:

Better than unrelated gaming news such as wrestling taking up all of the homepage.......on a gaming site!?!?!

@deviltaz35: I dunno, I like being informed about gaming industry news. You can always ignore the article if it doesn't interest you.