Median pay packages for chief executives rose by 16 percent in 2005, down from a 30-percent increase in 2004, according a survey of 1,703 public companies by The Corporate Library.
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The analysis found that compensation continues to rise for most CEOs.
"While increases have fallen from the exceptionally high rates found in last year's survey, the rate of growth is still very substantial, and well ahead of the rate of increase for any other group of employees," says Paul Hodgson, senior research associate at The Corporate Library and the study's author.
Source: The Corporate Library