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When was the last time you saw the CEO of a company decide how much they pay their employees, especially in a huge Fortune 500 company?

Usually that's HRs job. Sure budgets are set high-up, but I think it's ridiculous to say that CEOs have a big impact in salaries.

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> The researchers also found that these effects were strongest at firms with 50 or fewer employees, which they attribute to the fact that CEOs at smaller firms are typically more directly involved in making decisions that affect the pay of individual workers than CEOs at much larger firms.

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