Louisville, Kentucky-Based Almost Family Inc's Top-Tier Executives Average Annual Pay and Employee Benefits Increase Was a Blistering 31.7% Per Year During the Two Years (2017 and 2016) Before It Was Acquired in 2018

The State of Kentucky is holding its 2019 Governor's election on November 5, 2019.

Thus I think it would be helpful to research the extent of income inequality expansion in the State of Kentucky in the most recent years.

So far in my research of large US Corporations I have shown that their Top-Tier Executives have been rewarded continually with just enormous annual increases in pay and employee benefits, mostly stock equity compensation, even to the extent that the key issue to US citizens should be the huge and continuing Income Inequality Expansion which is at the core of many critical problems the US faces.

There have been many US Government laws enacted in the past two decades that have substantially increased income inequality expansion including the year after year after year of annual furtive tax extenders of predominately special interests additional tax loopholes, which both the Democratic and Republican Establishments voted for under the radar screen every year just before calendar year end, but nothing was even close to being more income inequality expanding than the Trump Tax Cuts Act.

On the other hand, the only highly effective US Government law enacted by either party in the past two decades that has substantially reduced income inequality expansion is Obamacare.

My objective is 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 long-term annual pay and employee benefits percentage increases for the executives of a Company vs the many non-executive employees of a Company, coupled with the stock price appreciation subsequent to the time the company executives were rewarded in their pay with stock equity compensation.

In my study here of large Kentucky Companies I will be doing this research by largest stock market capitalization and thus the 14th Kentucky Company I am addressing here is Almost Family Inc, which was acquired in 2018.

From annual compensation information contained in Company Proxy Statement and 10K/A filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the table below shows Almost Family Inc's Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of two consecutive full years of employment for the four years (2014 to 2017) before it was acquired in 2018.
   
Almost Family Inc's Top-Tier Executives Average Annual Pay and Employee Benefits Increase was a blistering 31.7% per year during the two years (2017 and 2016) and 21.5% per year during the four years (2014-2017) before it was acquired in 2018.

	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
	Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec
Almost Family	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
Yarmuth Chairman and CEO	N/A	N/A		3,313	2,272		2,272	1,819		1,819	2,416		2,416	1,533
Guenthner PFO	N/A	N/A		2,065	1,362		1,362	1,161		1,161	1,342		1,342	998
Schwartz COO	N/A	N/A		1,065	855		855	696		696	794		N/A	N/A
Lyles SVP Administration	N/A	N/A		1,139	722		722	687		687	781		781	667
Hogston SVP Hospital JV	N/A	N/A		N/A	N/A
Kaushal Chief Clinical Officer							504	487		487	595		595	450
Totals	N/A	N/A		7,582	5,211		5,715	4,850		4,850	5,928		5,134	3,648
Annual % Change vs Prior Year	N/A			45.5%			17.8%			-18.2%			40.7%
2 Year Average Per Year % Change					31.7%
4 Year Average Per Year % Change					21.5%