{"id":313824,"date":"2010-02-12T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/12\/lutz-auto-execs-are-underpaid\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:27:00","slug":"lutz-auto-execs-are-underpaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/313824","title":{"rendered":"Lutz: Auto execs are underpaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/government-legal\/\" rel=\"tag\">Government\/Legal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\" rel=\"tag\">GM<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/earnings-financials\/\" rel=\"tag\">Earnings\/Financials<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/article\/20100212\/AUTO01\/2120438\/GM-s-Lutz--Auto-execs-underpaid\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/gyi0059258400-630opcap.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> To clarify, Bob Lutz is specifically talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/gm\">General Motors<\/a>&#8216; top 25 execs. They are the ones who have seen their salaries decline by 31%, and their total remuneration packages go down by more than 20%. Said Lutz, &#8220;given the rigors of the job and demands and the accountability, I would say we are being paid way, way, way below market.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Some would say that the company Lutz works for is lucky to be around at all. Still, he&#8217;s got a bit of a point &#8211; the &#8220;market&#8221; decides who gets paid what, and then decides who&#8217;s going to go where. If GM&#8217;s salaries can&#8217;t keep up with their rivals&#8217;, then GM knows it&#8217;s going to have to make do with what it can get. Or, heaven forbid, get really creative with the massive talent and resources it does have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> To be fair, Lutz knows the score and is only looking for the end of the tunnel, acknowledging, &#8220;You can&#8217;t go through Chapter 11 and come out the other side and expect to have all of the same perks and comps as you did before. We just hope it doesn&#8217;t stay this way too long.&#8221; We say that it&#8217;s only fitting that how long the situation lasts &#8211; until GM repays its loans &#8211; will be decided entirely by Mr. Lutz and those 25 pay-restricted executives.<\/p>\n<p> [Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/article\/20100212\/AUTO01\/2120438\/GM-s-Lutz--Auto-execs-underpaid\">The Detroit News<\/a> | Source Image: Bill Pugliano\/Getty]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/12\/lutz-auto-execs-are-underpaid\/\">Lutz: Auto execs are underpaid<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:27:00 EST.  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They are the ones who have seen their salaries decline by 31%, and their total remuneration packages go down by more than 20%. Said Lutz, &#8220;given the rigors of the job and demands and the accountability, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}