Monday, April 27, 2009

Layoffs and Executive Pay

Two unrelated web sites, one on executive compensation and the other on recent U.S. layoffs, offer useful data and information, particularly for research on the current economic crisis:

2009 Executive PayWatch provides a searchable database and rankings of CEO pay by name, company, and industry. CEO pay for TARP money recipients is also identified. The site is produced by the AFL-CIO so there is a particular perspective but the data is presumably reliable.

The Layoff Tracker from Forbes provides compiled layoff figures for the 500 largest U.S. public companies -- date, name of company, industry, and number of layoffs. For April 24, 2009, the total number of layoffs since November 1, 2008: 536,173.

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