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Interesting Facts from Chief Executive from Chief Executive Magazine, Compiled by John Kador 1. Amount Google spent on security expenses for CEO Eric Schmidt in 2009, down 42 percent from 2008: $233,532 2. Fee to process a petition for a foreigner seeking to live in the U.S. who guarantees to invest at least $500,000 and create at least 10 jobs: $1,500, up $65 in 2010. 3. Average salary of employees at Goldman Sachs in 2010, representing a compensation ratio of 43%, down from 50% in 2009: $544,000 4. Amount of fine, the largest ever imposed by the SEC, against Goldman Sachs for failing to provide vital information for a CDO called Abacus in 2007: $550 million 5. Percentage of federal bailout loan payments made by GM that have been made with federal bailout funds: 100 6. Percentage increase since 2008 in the number of American expatriates who have given up their U.S. citizenship: 220 7. Wage paid by a union, the Midatlantic Regional Council of Governments, to hire nonunion picketers to protest hiring of nonunion help: $8.25 per hour 8. Minimum wage: $8.25 per hour 9. Rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage in July 2010, the lowest since Freddie Mac started keeping track in 1971: 4.58% 10. Proportion of homeowners with mortgages in excess o $1 million ―seriously delinquent: 1 of 7 11. Proportion with mortgages less than $1 million: 1 of 12 12. Cost to an iPhone user if every one of the $225,000 apps was bought at an average price of $2.80: $630,000 13. 2.5 Million: Number of barrels of blended and single malt scotch transferred by Diageo LLC, maker of Johnnie Walker and Talisker, to its pension fund 14. Cost of a standard pour of Macallan 12-year-old single malt scotch at the Oak Bar in the Plaza Hotel: $22 15. Markup per bottle, assuming the hotel pays $42 a bottle wholesale, with a 1.5 ounce standard pour, 17 pours per bottle: 890% 16. Rank of MIT as the school giving its graduates the best ROI, calculated by a total four-year cost of $189,300 against antici-pated earnings over 30-year earnings of $1,668,000: First 17. Of the 554 American universities, the number giving its graduates an ROI based on tuition and earnings that exceeded investing the tui-tion in the S&P 500 over the same period: 88 18. Factor by which the ROI of the average college education over the past 30 years (9%) outperformed investing in gold (2.6%) 346% 19. The value of global debt offerings in the first half of 2010, down 39% from the same period in 2009: $1.17 trillion 20. Savings rate in China, one of the highest in the world: 38% 21. Savings rate in the U.S.: 3.9% 22. Debt as a share of GDP of Italy, the E.U. country with the highest debt as a share of GDP: 115.8% 23. Of the United Kingdom: 68.1% 24. 41: Percentage of U.S. births to unmarried women in 2008, the highest ever 25. Percentage of personal income Americans paid in taxes in 2009, the lowest since 1950: 9.2% 26. Rank of Habitat for Humanity (with 5,294 house closings in 2009) among the largest home builders in America: 8 27. Chance that a publicly traded U.S. company started with venture capital funds was founded by immigrants: 1 in 4 28. Number of the 25 largest U.S. cities in which immigrants hold more white-collar jobs than blue-collar jobs: 14 29. Percentage of Americans in 1973 and 2006 who considered air conditioning a necessity: 26, 70 30. Percentage this year: 54 |