To fix Income Inequality driven mainly by Company and its Board of Director choices on Percentage Annual Pay Raises, the US Government should step in and pass wisely-designed Fair Pay Raise Income Inequality Narrowing Company tax incentives ..... the carrot ..... and Company wise tax disincentives ..... the stick.
And the continuing annual net tax revenues raised by the US Government here should be set up in a separate fund to be used only for wise additional income inequality narrowing initiatives. This fund should be run by an outside group made up entirely of minorities harmed the most by Income Inequality Expansion of the past decades .....all women, all blacks, all Latinos, all other non-white people, all past and present union members, all LGBTQ, all non-employee contract workers and all middle and lower income people of all ages.
Also, the US Government should require all US Corporate Boards to include at least one worker representative and to exclude any Company Executive.
I just recently have researched and made posts on Top-Tier Executives Long-Term Average Annual Pay Raise per year for each of the 30 Dow Industrial Companies. Adobe here is the seventh large non-Dow Technology Company I have made a post on and later I will be making similar posts on many more large non-Dow Companies, both Technology and Non-Technology ones, in order to get an even better handle on just why the US has such massive continuing Income Inequality Expansion ..... it appears to be predominantly about the relative long-term annual pay raise percentages, coupled with the stock price appreciation subsequent to the time the Top-Tier Executives were rewarded in their pay with stock equity compensation.
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| Shantanu Narayen Chair President and CEO | 28,398 | 21,934 | 21,934 | 20,035 | 20,035 | 18,357 | 18,357 | 17,891 | 17,891 | 15,747 | ||||
| John Murphy EVP CFO | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||
| Mark Garrett Former EVP CFO | N/A | N/A | 7,315 | 6,220 | 6,220 | 6,080 | 6,080 | 5,659 | 5,659 | 4,263 | ||||
| Scott Belsky Chief Product Off and EVP Cloud | ||||||||||||||
| Bryan Lamkin EVP GM, Digital Media | 8,186 | 7,091 | 7,091 | 5,730 | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
| Bradley Rencher EVP GM. Experience Cloud | 7,749 | 7,045 | 7,045 | 5,735 | 5,735 | 4,615 | 4,615 | 4,360 | 4,360 | 4,325 | ||||
| Matthew Thompson EVP WWFieldOperations | 7,808 | 6,454 | 6,454 | 6,108 | 6,108 | 6,147 | 6,147 | 5,894 | ||||||
| David Wadhwani SVP GM, Digital Media | 4,913 | 5,000 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 44,333 | 36,070 | 51,193 | 44,174 | 38,444 | 35,160 | 35,160 | 34,057 | 38,970 | 35,229 | ||||
| Annual % Change vs Prior Year | 22.9% | 15.9% | 9.3% | 3.2% | 10.6% | |||||||||
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| Shantanu Narayen Chair President and CEO | 15,747 | 12,013 | 12,013 | 10,825 | 10,825 | 12,228 | 12,228 | 5,032 | 5,032 | 17,002 | ||||
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| Mark Garrett Former EVP CFO | 4,263 | 12,589 | 12,589 | 3,972 | 3,972 | 4,892 | 4,892 | 2,359 | 2,359 | 3,539 | ||||
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| Matthew Thompson EVP WWFieldOperations | 5,894 | 4,940 | 4,940 | 3,586 | 3,586 | 4,549 | 4,549 | 1,898 | 1,898 | 2,875 | ||||
| David Wadhwani SVP GM, Digital Media | 5,000 | 4,238 | 4,238 | 3,314 | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
| Kevin Lynch EVP Chief Technology Officer | 4,748 | 5,427 | 5,427 | 4,363 | 4,363 | 2,273 | 2,273 | 3,247 | ||||||
| Totals | 30,904 | 33,780 | 38,528 | 27,124 | 23,810 | 26,032 | 26,032 | 11,562 | 11,562 | 26,663 | ||||
| Annual % Change vs Prior Year | -8.5% | 42.0% | -8.5% | 125.2% | -56.6% | |||||||||
| 10 Year Average Per Year % Change | 15.6% | |||||||||||||
