Ballmer: US workforce should be paid less
Found on The Inquirer on Saturday, 15 May 2004
Earlier this week Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer apparently suggested that the way to keep American jobs was to lower US professionals' pay to $55,000 - according to a report here.
According to this report on Cnet last September, Steve B and Bill G each got $551,667 in salary and $313,447 in bonuses last year.
Perhaps Steve should start by cutting his own salary by a tenth, as he is undoubtedly a US professional, and set that as the benchmark for the rest of the thousands of employees at Microsoft?
Then let's start with those who earn the most. Cutting Steve and Bill down from the $865,114 each would free $1,620,228. This could be spend wisely on education and science.