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Walmart CEO and President Doug McMillon's total compensation was $25.3 million last fiscal year. The median compensation for workers was $27,136.

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Distributed through buy backs executive comp and the banking system as opposed to that invested in new business formation, cap x and job creation which is the basic conservative thesis i agree with. >> what we have for mork. >> >> hang on mark hang on mark. >> what we have heard from ceo when polled he asked ceos to raise hands if you were doing anything other than reinvest wages in buy backs. and no one is saying this is going back into the economy in terms of wages. >> because its missing the ...

$4 billion more than that last year purchasing back their own stock from the market. just to inflate -- >> which is something thats great for investors. great for executive comp. compensation. that money could have gone back to the workers with all the productivity gains. >> theres a parallel there between as we face a fiscal cliff, how we think about what our citizens. i love this, is labor a cost to be minimized or the workers that we maximize. its the same sort of questions. do we invest in h...

Workers a raise. and it would create 100,000 jobs. you are putting money in hands of people that are going to spend. >> it would be a stimulus. >> a private sector retail-led stimulus. thats great. but you want your black friday flat screen. the question is how much would it cost? the whole large chain store sector would cost $20 billion to do this kind of wage flip. how does that compare? one, its actually less than just the top ten largest retailers spent buying back their own shares in the ma...