Also who is paying for the three times a week personal jet flights?
Edit: Nevermind the article says corporate jet. Silly me. Imagine Starbucks even paying the gas for a serf to commute to their job, much less the vehicle.
the article didn't go into numbers, but $20k each way, or $40k each day is a reasonable estimate of how much it'll cost to have that commute. 3x per week is $120k/wk; * 50 is $600k/ yr.
assume his salary is the $1.6 + $3.6 million, or $5.2 million (from the article), or 11% of his salary. if you made $100k/yr, that would be like spending $11k/yr on gas driving to and from work, or $900/month. which is 6x as much as $150, which is very roughly what I spend on gas commuting per month.
He also goes 3 days per week at the office. The fact that he has a plane for that is irrelevant. It is the same as blaming VPs for having drivers and they don't do their own driving to work.
The higher you are on the corporate ladder, the better the perks. And if the board of Starbucks acquiesced to his demands, I don't see why everybody is up in arms about it.
I'm happy that the people that I work for pay for my gas to come to work :)
