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Australia Post salary scandal highlights our nation's growing wage inequality

  • Written by Carl Rhodes, Professor of Organization Studies, University of Technology Sydney
imageAustralia Post CEO Ahmed Fahour earned $5.6 million in 2015-16.AAP/Tracey Nearmy

How much more than an average worker should a CEO earn? Research shows Australians believe CEOs should earn eight times more. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that revelations about the salary of Australia Posts CEO Ahmed Fahour have caused a public furore this week.

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