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Today's CEO earns 130 times the average salary. We need to talk about this

A participant walks past a poster at the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong January 20, 2010.

The gap between executive and average pay has increased dramatically Image: REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Stefan Stern
Director, High Pay Centre
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