How much does the boss make? To the boss, that has long been an understandably important question. But in the postwar fight over wages, another important question has bobbed up: how much do the workers think the boss (i.e., the "proprietors," the managers, and the stockholders) makes?
To find the answer, the Los Angeles Merchants and Manufacturers Association recently hired a professional pollster to ask a cross-section of Los Angeles residents. Of some 1,000 who were interviewed, more than half thought the employers must get around 50¢ out of every incoming dollar. Almost a third thought they got upwards of 75¢....
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