Kroger CEO's pay declines again | The Columbus Dispatch

compensation for 2011 valued at $5.4 million

Guess he'll have to tell his personal chef to start shopping at Aldi's to save some money in the household budget.

OMG, time to cut back on expenses!

Maybe I need to shop at Giant Eagle more to help reducing his 5.4 million dollar salary.

Maybe that is why they are closing the Kroger at 161 & Cleveland shopping area

Guy earns a salary he deserves based upon the market. It's a form a capitalism. Bothers me that so many Americans are against this ideal. We've become too much of a what can the government give me society.

poor guy, might have to sell one of his yachts.

When private sector CEO's do not perform they get a pay cut. Government workers continue to get increases regardless of how they perform.

If he can't "squeek" by on 5 1/2 million a year, He shouldn't be the CEO of Krogers...

Tough as it might be...Even I could make it through the year on that...And I certainly am not qualified to be a CEO anywhere.....

I think Mr. Dillon is doing an admirable job and is deserving of his compensation. Kroger did well in a tough economy competing against not only other traditional grocerers, but also the likes of Walmart, the largest retailer in the U.S. Kroger also does well to treat it's (Union)employees fairly and compensate them fairly. As it has been much debated, working with unions and union employess can be a difficult job. I am not a union supporter; I am a supporter of whom ever gets the job done. And Mr. Dillon is getting the job done and deserves every penny of his largely performance based salary. His performance not only affects his job, it affects the jobs of every Kroger employee and his compensation should reflect that.

John Thorpe wrote:

Guy earns a salary he deserves based upon the market. It's a form a capitalism. Bothers me that so many Americans are against this ideal. We've become too much of a what can the government give me society.

I don't think American's are against this idea, just against the fact that so many people are losing jobs who actually work hard but yet the CEO's of these jobs keep banking millions of dollars. Somethings not right with that.

John Thorpe wrote:

Guy earns a salary he deserves based upon the market. It's a form a capitalism. Bothers me that so many Americans are against this ideal. We've become too much of a what can the government give me society.

I don't see anyone mentioning handouts. I agree with you people have a right to earn and they get what they earn. I start to question if anyone however needs to earn $5.4 million per year. To be fair to Mr Dillon, he does have a rather small salary compared to many executives. But at the end of the day, does Mr Dillon's paperwork and leadership really add roughly $15,000 a day in value to the company? I seriously doubt it. And I seriously doubt the others who get paid these amounts are worth that much either. It's just another form of American excess. True capitalism doesn't pay someone $15,000 a day to do what someone else would do for $1,500. Fat cat corporate capitalism happily does though.

Kroger should stop giving food away they are a for profit business. the they could lower prices for people actually buying food...

What a shame.. he'll have to golf the public courses before long

RPh wrote:

I think Mr. Dillon is doing an admirable job and is deserving of his compensation. Kroger did well in a tough economy competing against not only other traditional grocerers, but also the likes of Walmart, the largest retailer in the U.S. Kroger also does well to treat it's (Union)employees fairly and compensate them fairly. As it has been much debated, working with unions and union employess can be a difficult job. I am not a union supporter; I am a supporter of whom ever gets the job done. And Mr. Dillon is getting the job done and deserves every penny of his largely performance based salary. His performance not only affects his job, it affects the jobs of every Kroger employee and his compensation should reflect that.

"Mister Dillon" is on line 1 - His dry cleaning is ready for pickup. Suckup.

I bet his salary will go up now that they are cracking down on coupon stacking! Keep that $$$$$ in house son!

wake up America! just look at the compensation of other countries CEO's...the American CEO is not worth 500 times the amount of the worker.

I don't know guys it seems like he still makes a decent amount of money to me.

Well, earning a meager $5.4 million should certainly incent Mr. Dillon to work harder!

Capitalism is a form of greed exploiting the many to enrich the few. Communism destroys the motivation to do better. Communism in its present form cannot exist without a dictatorship. Somewhere there has to be a common divide where an economic system can exist to benefit all.