2010 PayWatch Report Lists CEO Pay Nationwide

Focusing on the Wall Street giants that triggered America's economic meltdown, the 2010 AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch report could easily be titled, "Laughing All the Way to the Bank."

After grabbing tens of billions in taxpayer bailout dollars, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup paid out $145 billion in compensation in 2009 and spent about $25 million lobbying against financial reform. Meanwhile, consumers and small businesses are still begging for credit.

The annual PayWatch project updates data about CEO salaries at virtually all publicly held U.S. corporations. The website, www.paywatch.org, makes it easy to search by company, by industry or by state.