How Corporate Tax Cuts Boost Executive Pay

The Intercept: “Grinnell College assistant professor of economics Eric Ohrn used a database of top-level compensation at publicly traded U.S. firms to analyze the tax cuts’ impact on executive pay.”

“Ohrn examined the pay of 31,879 executives at 2,794 publicly traded companies from 1998 to 2012. His results showed that for every dollar in reduced corporate taxes from two types of tax cuts, compensation for the top five executives at the companies increased by 15 to 19 cents.”