Issuing pink slips pays well.

• Position: No Comment - Report on the salaries of chief executive officers who laid off more workers during the recession - Brief article

The CEOs who fired the most workers during the recession made significantly more than their counterparts at other U.S. big companies, according to the Institute for Policy Studies. The chief executives of the fifty corporations with the largest layoffs were paid, on average, $12 million. To give one...