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04/19/2010

CEO Pay at the Big Health Insurance Companies: Enough to Make You Sick

According to new data from the AFL-CIO’s Executive Pay Watch, none of the big health insurance CEOs need to clip coupons to make ends meet.  A few examples of annual Chief Executive pay: Aetna - $24.3 million; Travelers - $20.6 million; Cigna - $18.8 million; and Prudential - $18.4 million.  “For too long PAYWATCH
our health care system took better care of CEOs than it did patients.  The new health law will start to change this,” said Ruben Burks, the Alliance’s Secretary-Treasurer Ruben Burks. 

For more information on CEO pay in different sectors, visit the AFL-CIO’s Executive Paywatch site.

Posted at 07:16 AM in Big business |

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