You're in luck! This study has been done[0]... repeatedly. CEOs since 1978 have been found lacking. Think about it. CEO compensation has gone up 970% since then

You're in luck! This study has been done[0]... repeatedly. CEOs since 1978 have been found lacking. Think about it. CEO compensation has gone up 970% since then.[1] The key takeaway is that that boards set the compensation based on the average compensation CEOs at peer companies, but performance isn't equally distributed. Essentially, the highest performing CEOs pull up the mean, and so the average and below average CEO compensation goes up. [0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceo-pay-and-performance-dont-match-up-1526299200 https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceo-pay-and-performance-dont-ma... [1] https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/ https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/