Starbucks Corp Top-Tier Executives Average Pay Raise Was a Robust 16.4% Per Year During the Past Ten Years (Sept 2009-Sept 2018)

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

Starbucks Top-Tier Executives Average Annual Pay Raise of a robust 16.4% per year over the past 10 years is smack dab in the middle of the seven largest Retail Companies I have researched and made similar posts on:

1. Amazon +659.0% per year for past ten years
2. McDonald's +30.7% per year for past ten years
3. Walgreens Boots Alliance +22.2% per year for past ten years
4. Starbucks +16.4% per year for past ten years
5. Costco +7.1% per year for past ten years
6. Home Depot +6.5% per year for past ten years
7. Walmart +5.8% per year for past ten years

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 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 and for 22 of the largest Non-Dow Technology Companies.  

I am now turning my attention to large Non-Dow, Non-Technology Companies and I have started with the US Retailers.  

My objective is 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.

	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
	Sept	Sept		Sept	Sept		Sept	Sept		Sept	Sept		Sept	Sept
Starbucks	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
Howard Schultz Executive Chairman	N/A	N/A		17,981	21,815		21,815	20,091		20,091	21,466		21,466	17,243
Kevin Johnson CEO	13,382	11,480		11,480	11,058		N/A	N/A
Scott Maw CFO	5,981	5,762		5,762	4,385		4,385	3,654		3,654	2,215		N/A	N/A
Rosalind Brewer President Americas and COO	N/A	N/A
Clifford Burrows President Siren Retail	5,580	5,366		5,366	4,967		4,967	4,857		4,857	7,637		7,637	3,547
John Culver President International	5,907	5,367		5,367	5,244		5,244	3,837		3,837	6,333		6,333	3,805
Paul Mutty Interim General Counsel				N/A	N/A
Lucy Helm Former General Counsel				N/A	N/A
Troy Alstead Former COO										N/A	N/A		6,120	3,022
Totals	30,850	27,975		45,956	47,469		36,411	32,439		32,439	37,651		41,556	27,617
Annual % Change vs Prior Year	10.3%			-3.2%			12.2%			-13.8%			50.5%
	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
	Sept	Sept		Sept	Sept		Sept	Sept		Sept	Sept		Sept	Sept
Starbucks	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
Howard Schultz Executive Chairman	17,243	28,910		28,910	16,079		16,079	21,733		21,733	14,971		14,971	9,740
Scott Maw CFO
Clifford Burrows President Siren Retail	3,547	4,245		4,245	4,326		4,326	3,790		3,790	2,224		2,224	1,671
John Culver President International	3,805	2,842		2,842	2,771		2,771	3,391		N/A	N/A
Troy Alstead Former COO	3,022	4,133		4,133	4,287		4,287	3,458		3,458	1,415		N/A	N/A
Jeff Hansberry President China & Asia Pacific	2,417	4,379		4,379	2,454		N/A	N/A
Arthur Rubinfeld PresidentGlobalDevelopment							2,451	2,798		2,798	1,813		N/A	N/A
Totals	30,034	44,509		44,509	29,917		29,914	35,170		31,779	20,423		17,195	11,411
Annual % Change vs Prior Year	-32.5%			48.8%			-14.9%			55.6%			50.7%
10 Year Average Per Year % Change		16.4%