Where’s the advance work people?
Apparently unaware of the obscenely huge salary paid to the head of Hillary Clinton’s new fast-food favorite joint, the newly-minted Democratic presidential candidate blasted the salaries of CEOs Monday in an email before eating at Chipotle where the boss makes 1,195 times that of Clinton’s server.
Grabbing the easy issue of income inequality, Clinton slapped CEOs who make “about 300 times what the average worker makes.”
Manager Charles Wright at Chipotle wasn’t aware clinton was There till I called him. He pulled the security photo pic.twitter.com/wCIJlVpm9a
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 13, 2015
At the Maumee, Ohio, Chipotle where Clinton, riding in her “Scooby Doo van,” ordered a chicken burrito bowl, workers would probably be happy to get that kind of pay — but don’t.
Steve Ells, who serves as Chipotle’s chairman in addition to co-CEO, made $25.1 million last year, according to Bloomberg. The average Chipotle crew member earns $21,000. Three hundred times $21,000 would be $6.3 million, about half of what Ells received in stock options.
It’s an issue Clinton should be familiar with. The CEOs of the top corporate donors to her family’s Clinton Foundation make similar crazy-high salaries. Some examples:
— Cisco CEO, who has spoken at Clinton events, received $21 million, according to Reuters.
— Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good received $6.5 million in 2013, according to Charlotte Business Journal.
— Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman received $19.6 million in 2014, according to Bloomberg.
Even the Clinton Foundation pays its CEO well, recently settling on a salary of $395,000.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
