Originally Posted by
TravellingChris
You could make the CEO/President vs. frontline staff argument with any large company in any industry. Consider what Per Bank, CEO of Loblaw, earns per year in salary and bonus compared with frontline staff at a local store. The frontline staff are obviously the ones with whom the public has daily contact and who affect the customer experience. Yet the argument would be that there are comparatively few people in Canada or North America who have the relevant experience and skill set to run a retailer the size of Loblaw, just as there are few individuals who have the skill set to run an international airline like Air Canada.
You're trying to invoke that tricky logic that suggests that people should be paid based on the relative value of the work they do. Is the value of the work done to stock the shelves at the LCBO worth $30/hr? Well of course it isn't, but that's what a lot of those workers get paid because that's what the Union was able to negotiate out of the Government. Funny how those being paid above the value of the work they perform don't seem to see it that way though. That's why whenever I hear 'our CEO makes in an hour what a FA makes in a month' (I got that one from an FA last week) I just say 'right you are' and move on because there is no winning that argument with that person.