Cisco Systems Top-Tier Executives Average Pay Raise Was a Huge 16.0% Per Year During the Past 10 Years (2009-2018). But Having a Cisco Systems Executive as Board Chair During 9 of These 10 Years Appeared To Cause the Board of Directors To Be Out of Touch and There Appeared To Be Huge Grade Inflation of Top-Tier Executive Performance, Which Not Just Hurts Stockholders, But Also Results in Huge Annual Pay Raise Inequality Expansion.

From Company Proxy Statement filings with the SEC, below are the Cisco Systems Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of two consecutive full years of employment for the most recent ten years.

Cisco Systems is the 27th Dow Industrial Company I have researched so far on Top-Tier Executives Average Long-term % Pay Raises Per Year.   

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 will continue this same research for the 3 remaining Dow Companies (All Technology Cos) and then turn my attention to many other large US Companies to get a better handle on just why the US has such massive continuing Income Inequality Expansion ..... it appears to be predominantly about the relative annual pay raise percentages.

	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
	July	July		July	July		July	July		July	July		July	July
Cisco Systems	2018	2017		2017	2016		2016	2015		2015	2014		2014	2013
Top-Tier	Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total
Executive	Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp
	$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s
Charles Robbins Chairman and CEO	21,284	16,754		16,754	16,040		N/A	N/A
Kelly Kramer EVP and CFO	11,440	8,804		8,804	9,058		9,058	8,473		N/A	N/A
David Goeckeler EVP Networking & Security Bus	N/A	N/A
Maria Martinez EVPChiefCustomeExperience Officer	N/A	N/A
Gerri Elliott EVP Chief Sales&Marketing Officer	N/A	N/A
Chris Dedicoat EVP WW Sales and Field Ops				7,409	7,834		N/A	N/A
John Chambers Executive Chairman	N/A	N/A		6,910	9,860		9,860	19,621		19,621	16,488		16,488	21,050
Pankaj Patel Former EVP Global Engineering							8,498	13,011		13,011	8,629		N/A	N/A
Frank Calderoni Former VP CFO										27,181	9,278		9,278	11,068
Gary Moore Former President and COO										26,833	11,196		11,196	17,234
Robert Lloyd Former President Developmt&Sales										26,517	10,935		10,935	16,229
Totals	32,724	25,558		39,877	42,792		27,416	41,105		113,163	56,526		47,897	65,581
Annual % Change	28.0%			-6.8%			-33.3%			100.2%			-27.0%
	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
	July	July		July	July		July	July		July	July		July	July
Cisco Systems	2013	2012		2012	2011		2011	2010		2010	2009		2009	2008
Top-Tier	Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total
Executive	Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp
	$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s
John Chambers Executive Chairman	21,050	11,688		11,688	12,886		12,886	18,872		18,872	9,158		9,158	17,052
Frank Calderoni Former VP CFO	11,068	5,033		5,033	7,888		7,888	10,151		10,151	4,502		4,502	6,931
Gary Moore Former President and COO	17,234	7,250		7,250	11,253		N/A	N/A
Robert Lloyd Former President Developmt&Sales	16,229	6,306		6,306	7,922		7,922	10,291		10,291	9,294		N/A	N/A
Wim Elfrink EVP				6,056	11,944		11,944	15,744		15,744	8,245		8,245	12,837
Randy Pond EVP							8,048	10,357		10,357	5,401		5,401	9,120
Totals	65,581	30,277		36,333	51,893		48,688	65,415		65,415	36,600		27,306	45,940
Annual % Change	116.6%			-30.0%			-25.6%			78.7%			-40.6%
10 Year Avg Per Year % Change		16.0%