American chief executives are systematically better paid than CEOs from continental Europe or Japan

Outsource the CEO
The latest figures tell us that American executives make more than foreigners, media titans make more than oilmen, and none of it makes much sense.
By Matthew Yglesias|Posted Monday, July 1, 2013, at 3:18 PM

[E]veryone knows that the pay gap between the big executives and the average Joe has been growing. The surprise・・・・is the striking lack of method to the madness: America’s CEOs are paid a lot largely because other American CEOs are also paid a lot.





It would be wrong to say that compensation for America’s chief executives is handed out randomly, but there’s certainly no clear link to corporate performance, and even the link to corporate size is surprisingly vague





American chief executives are systematically better paid than CEOs from continental Europe or Japan. CEOs of U.K., Canadian, and other Anglophone firms tend to earn at close to American levels.




And big American investment management firms―also led by American corporate executives―likewise think this makes sense. Which is all quite nice, but if you tried convincing one of these very same executives that he shouldn’t replace an American factory worker with a cheaper Chinese one, he would laugh you out of the room.

　日本でも社長と平では所得格差はすごいわけですけど、アメリカのCEOの収入はまたすごいわけです。
記事は、もっとも、アメリカのシャチョーの収入が、会社の業績や規模によって決まるわけではなく、他のアメリカ人のシャチョーの収入の相場に合わせているだけなようです。しかも、アメリカ人という国籍によって値が上るだそうです。

　中国の安い労働力の代わりに高いアメリカ人労働者を使おう、と言えば笑うシャチョーがそんなことでいいのだろうか、と。

　そこで、表題の　Outsource the CEO　シャチョーを外注したほうがいいのではないか、となるわけでしょうね。

　日本の場合、ゴーンさんとか日本のシャチョーに比べるとめちゃ、収入が高いので、外注しないほうが効率的かもしれない。