{"id":1121,"date":"2004-08-31T19:36:45","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T23:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/outsourcing_bonuses\/"},"modified":"2004-08-31T19:36:45","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T23:36:45","slug":"outsourcing_bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/outsourcing_bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcing Bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"New Study on CEOs Compenstion Released\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/business\/manufacturing\/feeds\/ap\/2004\/08\/31\/ap1524113.html\">It pays<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chief executives of U.S. companies that outsourced the greatest number of jobs reaped bigger pay and benefits last year, according to a new study of executive compensation being released Tuesday.<br \/>\nAverage CEO compensation at the 50 companies outsourcing the most service jobs rose by 46 percent in 2003 from a year earlier, compared with a 9 percent increase for CEOs at 365 big companies overall, the study by the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy found.<br \/>\nOutsourcing of jobs has become a sensitive issue, and President Bush has largely avoided the subject in public appearances during the political campaign. Some of his economic advisers have said that exporting labor to low-cost countries will reduce business costs, boost companies&#8217; financial performance and thereby improve the U.S. economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course this study doesn&#8217;t establish a causal relationship between outsourcing and CEO pay.  But it is an interesting how those CEOs have fared.<br \/>\nSpeaking of outsourcing, yesterday Lou Dobbs had a lively discussion on it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0408\/30\/ldt.00.html\">with Congresswoman Ann Northup (R-KY)<\/a> (starts about 2\/3 of the way down the page.  It was refreshing to see a TV host actively challenging the assertions a politician made rather than just allow her to mindlessly rattle off the standard talking points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/outsourcing_bonuses\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Outsourcing Bonuses\"><p>It pays: Chief executives of U.S. companies that outsourced the greatest number of jobs reaped bigger pay and benefits last year, according to a new study of executive compensation being released Tuesday. Average CEO compensation at the 50 companies outsourcing the most service jobs rose by 46 percent in 2003 from a year earlier, compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}