32 Corporations Spent More On Compensation For Top Executives In 2010 Than They Paid In Income Taxes: "pOver the last few decades, executive pay at large corporations has skyrocketed. Today, American CEOs make 263 times the average compensation for American workers, up from the 30 to 1 ratio in the 1970s. In 2010 alone, CEO pay went up 27 percent while average worker pay went up just 2 percent. At the same [...]/p"