Not all CEOs are alike

February 17th, 2009 at 10:30am Wally Haas

It’s become a popular pastime to complain about salaries of the people who run big companies. While there’s plenty of room to criticize the six-figure salaries and six-figure bonuses, we need to remember that there are CEOs of smaller companies who struggle just as much as their employees do.

A tool-and-die company chief I know has not taken home a paycheck in three months. He’s doing that so he can keep the business running and his employees working. He doesn’t want any publicity and he doesn’t consider himself a martyr. He just wants to do what’s right for his company and his workers.

I think there are a lot of people like him out there, but perhaps not enough. It would be nice to see the big-salaried folksĀ  follow his example.

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