> C-level officers are usually paid in stock as well as cash, but the staff reporting directly to them are salaried employees. A great point, but note that the

> C-level officers are usually paid in stock as well as cash, but the staff reporting directly to them are salaried employees. A great point, but note that the writer considers C-level officers to be workers in this case. The headline might as well be Workers Pay Probably Keeping up with Inflation, Execs Doing Great, but that's not really news.