Another informative metric might be the ratio of pay of a manager to all managed employee salaries. So as companies grow and consolidate, you have a single CEO

Another informative metric might be the ratio of pay of a manager to all managed employee salaries. So as companies grow and consolidate, you have a single CEO managing the employee force of a dozen acquired companies (or what could be separated out into many different companies). Just seems like CEOs today are something like the CEO of multiple CEOs, companies have grown so large. Should the person who is skilled at managing CEOs be paid more than the CEO that is skilled at managing business units? The market says 'yes'. Maybe CEOs should just explain that they have x jobs, one for each business unit. And then get paid independently for each one.