Actually, counting tips as part of the wage is one of the worst abuses in the US economic system. It effectively allows the owner of the restaurant to charge the customer on top of the stated prices on the menu, purportedly for the sake of paying their employees, without any guarantee that it is so. Or it is, indeed, an entirely 'voluntary' contribution, effectively holding the employee's wages hostage against both the employee and the customer.
Also, IIRC Norway actually had a public record of hourly wages, going by the highest, lowest, median, average and mean, recorded over every sector and job description and the public had easy access to that record. It's been made harder to access because it didn't benefit labour negotiations a lot and negatively impacted mental health.
That said, I've no issue with the CEO's pay being compared to an hourly wage. Hell, the CEO effectively on call 24 hours a day, every day, the time he spends in office is but a small part of the demand the company places on his time, so comparing it to a standard full working week (whatever definition of standard full working week you're using, 40 hours is common) and all the surcharges for overtime, holiday hours, night shifts etc. worked by a theoretical employee on the lowest pay scale of the company is fine.
I mean, a salary basically is like that already.
What you really want to do though? It's not declare 'this much in salary relative to your lowest paid worker and no more'. There's tons of ways to get around that. It's declare 'this much in total income relative to your lowest paid worker and no more'.
Also, IIRC Norway actually had a public record of hourly wages, going by the highest, lowest, median, average and mean, recorded over every sector and job description and the public had easy access to that record. It's been made harder to access because it didn't benefit labour negotiations a lot and negatively impacted mental health.
That said, I've no issue with the CEO's pay being compared to an hourly wage. Hell, the CEO effectively on call 24 hours a day, every day, the time he spends in office is but a small part of the demand the company places on his time, so comparing it to a standard full working week (whatever definition of standard full working week you're using, 40 hours is common) and all the surcharges for overtime, holiday hours, night shifts etc. worked by a theoretical employee on the lowest pay scale of the company is fine.
I mean, a salary basically is like that already.
What you really want to do though? It's not declare 'this much in salary relative to your lowest paid worker and no more'. There's tons of ways to get around that. It's declare 'this much in total income relative to your lowest paid worker and no more'.