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The surprising news about CEO pay

Chief executives are still being handsomely rewarded, but growth in their remuneration has stalled in the past decade thanks to a combination of several factors. 

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.

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James Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com

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