The gulf between what bosses in New Zealand's big companies earn and what their employees are paid is steadily growing. In 2002, a Chief Executive's average pay was 15.2 times the national average worker's income. 18 By 2010, when the Dominion Post started tracking the pay gap between the top 34 listed New Zealand companies, CEOs earned 21.9 times as much as their workers.
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