Or will they simply compare top pay with their own earnings, and vote it down?
The trend in top pay in Britain is modest beside what has happened in the United States.
At private firms, where owners are more directly in control, top pay is less visible, but has risen at similar rates.
Of the nine top pay-TV distributors, only Time Warner Cable Inc.
Mr Gray raised concern over top pay in the public sector, pointing to figures claiming that about 900 workers were earning more than the first minister.
If the responsibility for top pay spreads from the boardroom to the annual general meeting, will shareholders accept the arguments made by Lord Stevenson and others?
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But consultants who advise companies on top pay complain that such guidelines make it harder for firms to compete in the world market for top talent, because bosses elsewhere rarely face such hurdles.
Last week they voted against Labour's motion on the bonus culture, greater transparency on top pay and the need for a new tax on bank bonuses to fund 100, 000 jobs for young people.
But Mr Miliband accused the prime minister of giving "no leadership on top pay" - and said laws requiring banks to disclose high-paid employees was already on the statute book and could be implemented by ministers.
The top 5% pay 60%, and the top 50% pay 97% of federal income taxes.
But today Health Grades' methodology is an industry standard, and top hospitals pay for its advice.
Although more than half a million women worked for the federal government, they made up 1.4 percent of the civil-service workers in the top four pay grades.
On curbing top executives pay they are only launching a consultation into how to have greater transparency - a policy the Conservatives advocated before the last election.
Which is just another illustration of how top executive pay retains a huge lottery element, even when remuneration consultants think they're being scientific and linking pay to performance.
The move comes on the heels of European-wide steps last Thursday to address top management pay, which has been a lightning rod for public anger across the world since the financial crisis.
In response to the criticism from SIGTARP, a Treasury spokesman notes that the Top 25 pay for the seven banks that originally received TARP loans by more than 50% (including a more than 90% cut to cash pay), and that the CEOs of AIG, GM and Ally (the former GMAC) have not received pay increases during their tenure.
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The commission calls for a number of reforms, including a "radical simplification" of executive pay, putting employees on remuneration committees and publishing the top 10 executive pay packages more widely.
Black New Yorkers cheer all of this, perhaps most notably in 2005 when three-quarters of blacks supported a transit union that called an illegal walkout while demanding a 6% annual pay raise on top of its already bulging pay envelope.
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For example, you can sit at home and pay to top-up your electricity meter or pay your cable TV subscription using Paga.
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Average pay in the top half is higher than average pay in the bottom half.
Does anyone still pay top dollar for a CD player, fax machine or microwave oven?
That leaves the vexed question of how, and how much, to pay top bosses.
This and its willingness to pay top price gives it an edge in any future auction.
Meanwhile, electronics recyclers like Gazelle in the U.S. pay top dollar for used electronics.
They have to pay top dollar to buy the black stuff from those producers.
He's right that the system isn't fair, but not because the top 1% pay too little.
Many are business travelers who pay top dollar for their tickets and have little time for disruptions.
In one case, while DaimlerChrysler's market value fell by 60%, its top executives' pay rose by 40%.
Other academics want to overhaul unemployment insurance to top up the pay of those who take low-wage jobs.
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