The number at the top of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors’ latest review of CEO pay is so eye-watering that it would spark outrage in any given year.
But at a time when the community is battling surging inflation, rapidly rising interest rates and tepid wage growth, the idea that Afterpay founders Anthony Eisen and Nick Molnar took home $264.2 million in realised pay in the 2021 financial year seems particularly obscene.