We very often a fragmented view of wages paid to bosses of companies large French companies. At a time when we asked about the compensation policies of major leaders and the distribution of value added, a study by the financial markets has been published last July 9 and allows D ' have a much more detailed and categorized information. This report has been made in order to "monitor compliance by listed companies of code AFEP / MEDEF. 60 companies of the CAC 40 and SBF 120 were selected, or "83% of the total market capitalization of French companies listed on the Paris Stock Exchange. We invite you to read this very interesting document and to

better understand the current controversy raised by the fees. In summary, the majority of companies still needs to work hard to meet the recommendations of the Code AFEP / MEDEF. Indeed, a majority of firms are affected by the accumulation of social mandates and work contracts (65%). 60% also use severance. Compensation that the political authorities hope to better regulate, among other incentives for the evaluation of management performance. 75% of companies have introduced pension further. Strengthening controls on these systems grows, the transparency on how the calculations of pension benefits. Finally 87% of companies assign options to purchase or sales of shares or performance shares to certain of their leaders. This should probably be much more guarded in future years (81% or 42 companies require their leaders to preserve a significant portion of shares allocated to the sale of their mandate "). Finally the study provides detailed statistics on the salaries of executives. The median wage "for CEOs, presidents of directors, CEO, Managers and Associates is located at 1 474 000 paid in 2008. You will find many figures in the study and you can build your own opinion.