Widening the gap.

• Position: Executive pay - Brief Article

Executive pay jumped 571 percent between 1990 and 2000, dwarfing the 37-percent growth in worker pay.

If the minimum wage, which stood at $3.80 an hour in 1990, had grown at the same rate as CEO pay over the decade, it would now be $25.50 an hour, rather than the current $5.15 an hour.

Heather Killen, a Yahoo senior vice president, was the highest-paid woman in America in 2000, with a total compensation package of $32.7 million--just 11 percent of what the...