Here they are, courtesy of the AFL-CIO. Number one? Aubrey K. McClendon of Chesapeake Energy, who made a cool $100,069,201 in 2008. That’s 100 million. I bet he gets his own parking space too. Number two, at $59,834,630, is Eugene M. Isenberg of Nabors Industries, which I believe manufactures merchandise featuring the picture of fan [...]

At 12pm ET today, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka is holding a live webcast discussion on executive pay Just a hunch, but I’m guessing he thinks they make too much. Watch it here. And here is the union’s Executive PayWatch web site, where you can search for your favorite CEO and his compensation by company name, [...]

This infographic, found on Boing Boing, is one way to starkly illustrate excessive CEO pay. It shows how many minimum wage earners it would take to equal the salaries of the top eight corporate chief executives in 2008. Click on the chart to see it full size.