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Drug crime pays poorer wages than corporate America

  • Monday, December 8, 2014
  • AM edejer
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    A recent study found that drug gangs have a pay gap wider than that of the legitimate business world.


    Drug kingpins, the CEOs of their organizations, rake in $1.68 million to $2.52 million a year. But baggie-selling foot soldiers are paid $4,756 a year — nearly half the U.S. minimum wage, according to a study by treatment4addiction.com, a website that connects addicts with rehab centers.



    At the higher end of the range, that's a CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 5,024 to 9.5. Compare that with the 331 to 1 divide found in the average U.S. corporation, according to data compiled by the AFL-CIO. Read more...


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