A Fair Day’s Pay How much is a good CEO worth The high pay of (31) executives can create employee distrust and sometimes outright hostility, especially during times of financial hardship. More and more companies are facing the question of (32) to set ethical pay standards for their top brass. How can anyone judge whether Walt Disney’s Michael Eisner is (33) the $ 40 million in total compensation he received in 1988 One way to make (34) of such figures is to com pare them with wages earned by the company’s lowest paid workers~ Does Disney do work equivalent to that of more than 2,000 people who run rides and pick up trash at Disney World The question (35) confined to Walt Disney. A study showed that the (36) CEO was making 93 times the salary of an average factory worker, 72 times that of a teacher, and 44 times that of an engineer. Moreover, executives can now take advantage of many more tax breaks than they could 30 years ago. Some corporations—including a number of well respected and very successful ones-under stand how much resentment such figures can create in employees. They have put a ceiling on the amount their top executives can make. The pretax income of office furniture maker Herman Miller’s CEO is limited to 20 times that of the company’s manufacturing (37) Ben & Jerry’s limits its executives’ pay to 5 times that of its (38) —paid employees. Most American corporations still scoff at such ideas and continue to widen the gap between their best-and (39) —paid employees. But before too long, such well-paid executives may start getting some of the blame for the problems American companies have competing in the (40) economy.